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.
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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 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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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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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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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