It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I don’t really like knees.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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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