French - Designer | August 1, 1936 - June 1, 2008
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
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A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.
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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.
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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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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'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.
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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 told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.'
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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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Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.
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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.
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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!
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