Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
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 like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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