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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Dressing is a way of life.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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