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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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