Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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