Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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