My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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