Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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 don’t really like knees.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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 pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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