What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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