Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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 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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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 have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I don’t really like knees.
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