Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing 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?
YVES SAINT LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good clothing is a passport for happiness.
YVES SAINT LAURENTChanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhen you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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