Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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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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