I don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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?
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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