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 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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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