A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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