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 participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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