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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTChanel freed women, and I empowered them.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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There 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.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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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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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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