I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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 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 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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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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