I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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 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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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