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 LAURENTI’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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.
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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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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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