To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I 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.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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