Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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