The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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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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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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