We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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 don’t really like knees.
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