Elegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTTo be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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 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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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