Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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