Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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 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.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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