Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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