Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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