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 LAURENTThere 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I don’t really like knees.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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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