No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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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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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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