A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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There 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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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