I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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 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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I don’t really like knees.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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