A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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 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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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