A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of 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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 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 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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