For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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I don’t really like knees.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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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.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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