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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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 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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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