It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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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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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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