A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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