Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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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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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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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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.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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