Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
YVES SAINT LAURENTA 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.
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 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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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