The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTHaute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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