Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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