I 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 LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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