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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 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 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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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