Top 59 Yves Saint-Laurent Quotes
#2. The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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#3. I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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#7. 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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#9. 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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#11. For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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#12. Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, 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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#13. 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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#16. I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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#17. 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. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.
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#19. 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. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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#20. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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#23. 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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#24. Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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#25. A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. 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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#26. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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#27. The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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#31. Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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#32. 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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#36. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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#43. 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.
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#46. I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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#51. For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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#52. Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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#53. A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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#54. 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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#55. I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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#58. There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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#59. Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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