I’m so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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