My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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.
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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 bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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.
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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