Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I 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.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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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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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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