What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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