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’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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 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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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