Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTBlue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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