I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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 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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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