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 LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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