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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Yves Saint Laurent
Age: 71 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 1
Died: 2008
Died: June 1
Art Collector
Businessperson
Costume Designer
Designer
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Fashion Designer
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Chanel
Freed
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Women
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, You must wear that. ... I am not a dictator.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, 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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Elegance is no longer significant clothes have to be fun.
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