For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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