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" Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Women
I Am
Future
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" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "
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" The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same. "
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" I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style. "
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" I'm constantly looking for perfection. "
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" I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right. "
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" I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like. "
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" Dressing is a way of life. "
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" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "
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" I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. "
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" My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories. "
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" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "
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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 live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm. "
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Day
" I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times. "
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" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "
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" Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. "
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" Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake. "
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" I just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "
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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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" Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? "
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" I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people. "
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" We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. "
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" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "
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" When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me. "
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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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" I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "
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" When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon! "
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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 do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. "
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