What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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Le 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.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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