It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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