Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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 street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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 like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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