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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTYou should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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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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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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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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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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