Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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 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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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