It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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