I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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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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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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. 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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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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