Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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 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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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