We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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