For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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