You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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