My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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 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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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