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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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