Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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