I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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