I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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