I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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 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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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Le 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.
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