I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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