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.
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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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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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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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