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 LAURENTI love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of 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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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