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 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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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