To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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