No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I don’t really like knees.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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