I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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