Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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 street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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