Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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