I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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 have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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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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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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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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