No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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.
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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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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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