Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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I don’t really like knees.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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