Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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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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