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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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