Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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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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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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