For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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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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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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