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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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 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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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 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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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