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.
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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I don’t really like knees.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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 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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