Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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 like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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