For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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The 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.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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