Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don’t really like knees.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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