Elegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I 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.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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