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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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