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 LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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