For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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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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