A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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