Dressing is a way of life.
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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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