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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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 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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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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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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