I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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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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 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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 don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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