I’m so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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 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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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