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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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