I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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 defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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