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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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 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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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