A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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