I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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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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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