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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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 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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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