I 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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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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 like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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