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 LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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