The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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