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 LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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