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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIf, 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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