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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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