I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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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 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 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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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 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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