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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTHaute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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?
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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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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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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