Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 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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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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