[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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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