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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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