It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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Dressing is a way of life.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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 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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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