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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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 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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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