Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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If, 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.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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