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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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 cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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