Yves Saint Laurent Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't really like knees.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Knees

  The Observer, August 3, 1958.

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Drawing, Creating

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• [Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Style, Vitamins

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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, Sex, Blue Dress

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fun, Clothes, Elegance

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• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Perfection, Innovation, Style

  Yves Saint Laurent (1998). “Yves Saint Laurent and Fashion Photography”, Te Neues Publishing Group

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Smoking, Forever

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• Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sunglasses, Forget

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.24, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Names, Letters, Written

  "The saint: Yves Saint Laurent". Interview with Susannah Frankel, www.dazeddigital.com. March 2000.

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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, Style, Important

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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

  Women, Flames, People

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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

  Clothes, Important, Eras

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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

  Character, Years, Anxiety

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Views, Transformed

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.

  Yves Saint Laurent

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Jeans, Clothes

  "The saint: Yves Saint Laurent". Interview with Susannah Frankel, www.dazeddigital.com. March 2000.

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• The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Stories, Love Story

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Expression, Personality

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Order, Imperfection, Secret

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• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Years, Models

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I'm so secluded. Very alone.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Secluded

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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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

  Littles, Contact

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Elegance and beauty have been banished.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Elegance, Has Beens

  "Brilliant designer Yves Saint Laurent dies" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 2008.

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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

  Thinking, Views, Artistic

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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