Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Dressing 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?
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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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.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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