Dressing is a way of life.
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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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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 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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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