Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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