Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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