Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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 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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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