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.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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 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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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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