I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
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 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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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 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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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 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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing 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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