The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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 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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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