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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of 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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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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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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.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I 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.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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