Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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