The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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