Quotes by Yves Saint Laurent - Page 2

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Fashion
Jeans
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Art
Dream
Reality
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Contact
Littles
Closer
Distant
Guess
Outside
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Giving
Self Confidence
Style
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Blue
Blue Dress
Blue Jeans
Clothes
Expression
Fashion
Jeans
Modesty
Sex
Sex Appeal
Simplicity
Wish
Had
Appeal
Invented
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I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Contemporary
Transformation
Wardrobe
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Beautiful
Fashion
Life Changing
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Beautiful
Life And Death
Struggle
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Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Decades
Change Future Women
All Women
Basic
Persuaded
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Colour
Horrible
Legs
African
Good Men Look
Skirt
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Women
Flames
People
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When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Garments
Phenomenon
Thousand
Work Music Myself
Hall
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Abstract
Dictator
Fashion
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Famous
Clothes
Faithful
Joy
Worn
Unknown
Thank
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Fashion
Important
Style
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Giving
Moving
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The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Design
Couture
Creation
Act
Between
Big Difference
Same
Difference
Fabrics
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I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Trousers
Wanted
Functional
Basic
Believed
Blazer
Suit
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Fashion
Transformed
Views
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Add
Six Months
Use
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Women
Beautiful
Clothes
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I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Confidence
Clothes
Coats
Suits
Men Women More
Noticed
Sought
Trench
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Eras
Important
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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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Clothes
Pedestal
Sculpture
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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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Love
Chance
Bras
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I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Calm
Noise
Solitude
Speak
Work Me Day
Complete
Parties
Telephone
Tires
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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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Fashion
Forever
Smoking
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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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Giving
Joy
Moving
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Artistic
Disinterested
Point Of View
Thinking
Views
Love Work Me
Totally
Rob
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When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Chains
Privilege
All The World
Near
Sensation
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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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Men
Creating
Drawing
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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.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Blue
Blue Jeans
Clothes
Expression
Jeans
Modesty
Relaxed
Sex
Sex Appeal
Simplicity
Spectacular
Appeal
Invented
Practical
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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. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Art
Christian
Fashion
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My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Break
Chapel
Classmates
Locked
Refuge
Scapegoat
Toilets
Arrange
Hit
Similar
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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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Imperfection
Order
Secret
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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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Men
Expression
Personality
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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. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.
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Art
Fashion
Wings
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I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Arrogant
Couture
Dignity
Humour
Luxury
Provocative
Punk
Introduce
Sees
Wink
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
Yves Saint Laurent / Fashion Designer
Anxiety
Character
Years
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