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 LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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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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I don’t really like knees.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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 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 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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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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