(15 quotes found)
“Dressing is a way of life.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.”
“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”
“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence,”
“[*Haute couture implies precision in lines] 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.”
