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.
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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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