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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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 come and go, but style is forever.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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