There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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 don’t really like knees.
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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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