Fashions 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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