I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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