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 LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by 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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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