For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTTo be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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 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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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