Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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