For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing 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?
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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