I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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