Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I don’t really like knees.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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