Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 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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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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 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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