Elegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTBlue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good clothing is a passport for happiness.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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