Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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