I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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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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