For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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Dressing is a way of life.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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