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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.

~Yves Saint Laurent

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My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.

~Yves Saint Laurent

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

~Yves Saint Laurent

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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!

~Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

~Yves Saint Laurent

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Designer

Born: August 1st, 1936

Died: June 1st, 2008

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