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.
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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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