I 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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.
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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 comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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