I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENTTo be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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 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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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 really like knees.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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