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 LAURENTI love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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