I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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