Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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