Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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