Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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 is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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