I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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 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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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