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Fashion designer

Yves Saint Laurent, born on August 1, 1936, and passed away on June 1, 2008, was a renowned French fashion designer. He is considered one of the most influential designers of the 20th century, changing the landscape of the fashion world with his unique style and vision.

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“A good model can advance fashion by ten years.”

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Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“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.”

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Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“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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Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.”

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“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.”

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Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

About the Author

Born: August 1, 1936
Died: June 1, 2008
Known for: Fashion designer
Quotes: 65

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