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All Quotes by author - Yves Saint Laurent

" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "

" A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color. "

" 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. "

" Dressing is a way of life. "

" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "

" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "

" I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. "

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

" I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "

" 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. "

" I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. "

" 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. "

" I just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "

" 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. "

" I'm constantly looking for perfection. "

" I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people. "

" I'm so secluded. Very alone. "

" I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like. "

" Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? "

" I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times. "

" I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.' "

" It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. "

" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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