We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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