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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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