Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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