Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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 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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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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 want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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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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