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 LAURENTI have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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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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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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