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.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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’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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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