I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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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 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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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 at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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