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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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’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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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 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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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