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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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