I 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.
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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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.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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