Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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 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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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