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 LAURENTFor me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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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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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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