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 LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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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.
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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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