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.
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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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 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.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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