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.
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 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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I don’t really like knees.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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