Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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.
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