Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTChanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
YVES SAINT LAURENTBlue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions come and go, but style is forever.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTLe 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIf, 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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