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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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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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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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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