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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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