There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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 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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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