I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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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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