A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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 really like knees.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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 at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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