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?
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.
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.
![Yves Saint Laurent Quote - [Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/fashion-is-a-kind-of-vitamin-for-style-683x1024.jpg)
![Yves Saint Laurent Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/i-dont-like-to-make-a-woman-an-abstract-concept-of-683x1024.jpg)
