A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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