You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWithout elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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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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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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