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.
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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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