Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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 couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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