I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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