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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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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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