I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
YVES SAINT LAURENTHaute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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 is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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 come and go, but style is forever.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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