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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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 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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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 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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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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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