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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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