I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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.
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