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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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 really like knees.
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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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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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