I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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 makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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 don’t really like knees.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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 love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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