A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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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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