What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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 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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I 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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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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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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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