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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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 like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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