A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of 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 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 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.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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