I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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