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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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