Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIf, 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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