You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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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