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 LAURENTWithout elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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