I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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’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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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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