Yves Saint Laurent

Designer

1936-08-01

Books by Yves Saint Laurent

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Quotes by Yves Saint Laurent

I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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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.
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My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.
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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.
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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.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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.
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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.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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