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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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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