Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by 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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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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.
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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 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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 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 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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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 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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