I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of 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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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