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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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 black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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