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 LAURENTFashions 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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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