I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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