I don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but 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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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