Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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 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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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