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.
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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 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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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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