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 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 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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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