Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I 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.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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