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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."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on dress    Share

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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on elegance    Share

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves on fashion    Share

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves on models and modeling    Share

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"Fashions fade, but style is eternal."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on style    Share

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"I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on twentieth century    Share

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