I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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