I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA 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 LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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