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Yves Saint Laurent Inspirational Quotes (63)

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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for 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.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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