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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! "
Yves Saint Laurent
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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 am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and 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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" 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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" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "
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" I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. "
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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 just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "
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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 visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color. "
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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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" Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. "
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" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "
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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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" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "
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" I'm constantly looking for perfection. "
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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 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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" Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake. "
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" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "
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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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" Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. "
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" I'm so secluded. Very alone. "
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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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" 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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" 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'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 hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. "
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" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "
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