Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTLe plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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 couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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