Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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 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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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 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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing 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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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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