The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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 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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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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 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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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