I was born with a nervous breakdown.
YVES SAINT LAURENTNo more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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 black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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