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.
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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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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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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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 makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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