What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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 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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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