"Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays."
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"In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two"
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"Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is."
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"I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion."
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"I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor."
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"Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?"
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"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
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"I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch."
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"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
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"Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless."
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"I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity."
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"I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice."
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"I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing."
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"In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away."
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"New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct."
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"There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?"
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"You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?"
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"It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone."
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"I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers."
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"We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait."
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