I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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