It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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 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.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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