Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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