Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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 couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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