The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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