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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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 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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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