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.
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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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