We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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 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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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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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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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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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