Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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I 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.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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