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" I'm constantly looking for perfection. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Perfection
Looking
Constantly
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" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "
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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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" 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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" It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. "
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" I'm so secluded. Very alone. "
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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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" I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. "
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" 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 am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "
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" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "
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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. "
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" Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. "
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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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" I just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "
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" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "
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" I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence. "
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" I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. "
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Show
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" I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like. "
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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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" If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible! "
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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 try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "
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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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Youth
" We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. "
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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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" Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? "
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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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