The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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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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.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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