Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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 don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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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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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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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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