I’m so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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There 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.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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 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.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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 street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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