A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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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.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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 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.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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