I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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