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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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 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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