Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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.
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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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