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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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I 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.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Fashion comes and goes, but 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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