The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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 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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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