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.
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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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