The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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 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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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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