It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by 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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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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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I don’t really like knees.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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