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 LAURENTFor a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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