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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for 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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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 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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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