I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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