I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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