Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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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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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 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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