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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Yves Saint Laurent
Age: 71 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 1
Died: 2008
Died: June 1
Art Collector
Businessperson
Costume Designer
Designer
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Fashion Designer
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Yves St. Laurent
Chanel
Freed
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Women
More quotes by Yves Saint Laurent
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
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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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.
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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
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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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