I was born with a nervous breakdown.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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 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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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