Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTChanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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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.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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