What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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 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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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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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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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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 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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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