I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENTBlue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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