Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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 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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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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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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 at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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