We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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