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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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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 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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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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