Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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?
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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