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 LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 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 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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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