I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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