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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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 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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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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