Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhen you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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