We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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