I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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A 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.
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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 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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