I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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