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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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