It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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