Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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