The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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 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 LAURENTI wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWithout elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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