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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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