Elegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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