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?
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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 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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