What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of 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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I don’t really like knees.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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 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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