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"34 Yves Saint Laurent Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 August 1936. Died: 1 June 2008 | Fashion designer |

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Model Fashion Adveance Good
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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.

Hope Simplicity Sex Nonchallant
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Dressing is a way of life.
Dressing Way Life
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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.

Hope Sex Clothes Appeal
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance Wearing Forgetting What
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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.

Faithful Clothes Thank Been
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Pathetic Physically Victimized Fashion
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Woman Important What Dress
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

Country Extraordinary America New
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
Seclude Alone Very
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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.

Woman Inspired Totally Point
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Longer Sensation Style Perfection
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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.

Difference Between Couture Fabrics
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Good clothing is a passport to happiness.
Happiness Good Passport Clothing
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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.

Clothes Coats Confidence Confident
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A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

City Color Great Me
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

Also Cubism Films Happy
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I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

Am Between Couture Design
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Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

Clothes Customers Dress Individual
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I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.
Day Famous Myself One Day
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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.

Arrogant Course Couture Dignity
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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.

Alone Arrange Break Chapel
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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!

Ask Could Done Five
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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.

Always Beautiful Beauty Break
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My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.

Accessories Black Changing Favorite
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I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.

Artist Just My Own Own
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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.

Calm Complete Day Live
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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.

All Women Am Basic Change
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I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

Attention Because Deceived Pay
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I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.
Agreeable Circumstances Only Try
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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!

African Body Colour Good
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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.

Basic Believed Blazer Functional
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I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.

Any Doing Fashion Fun
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I'm constantly looking for perfection.

Constantly Looking Perfection
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Yves Saint Laurent Quotes & Sayings