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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! "
Yves Saint Laurent
Men
Look
Good
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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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Difference
Same
Big
" 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
Me
Work
Love
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Freedom
Look
Style
" I'm constantly looking for perfection. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Perfection
Looking
Constantly
" I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. "
Yves Saint Laurent
America
Country
Extraordinary
" A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Visit
Great
Shock
" I just tried to be an artist in my own metier. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Just
Artist
My Own
" Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Very
Happy
Makes
" Fashions fade, style is eternal. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Style
Fashions
Eternal
" I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Am
I Am
Innovation
" I try to only be in agreeable circumstances. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Agreeable
Try
Only
" I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Love
Story
Design
" Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? "
Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance
Forgetting
Wearing
" We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Snobbery
Never
Must
" I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Transformation
Woman
Tell
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Women
I Am
Future
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Joy
Me
Clothes
" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Model
Good
Fashion
" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Good
Clothing
Passport
" I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Shape
Short
Dress
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Same
Suit
Right
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Beautiful
Beauty
Youth
" 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
Myself
Like
Place
" Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Like
Dress
Own
" I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Simplicity
Clothes
Blue
" 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! "
Yves Saint Laurent
Myself
Work
Ask
" I'm so secluded. Very alone. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Very
Secluded
Alone
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Clothes
Confidence
Men
" Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Important
Woman
Dress
" 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. "
Yves Saint Laurent
Solitude
Live
Day