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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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Fashions 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.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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