We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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 is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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