There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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A 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.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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