Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of 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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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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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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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