Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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