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 don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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