To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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