To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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 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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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