It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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 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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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