The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 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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