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" My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories. "
Yves Saint Laurent
You
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" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "
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" I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. "
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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 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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" Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. "
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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 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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" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "
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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 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'm constantly looking for perfection. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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