Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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 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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t really like knees.
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