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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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