I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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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 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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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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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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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