I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTNo more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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