Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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