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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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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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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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A 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.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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