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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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