I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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 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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