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.
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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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