Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good clothing is a passport for happiness.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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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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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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