I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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