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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTChanel freed women, and I empowered them.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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