I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Dressing 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?
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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