What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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