I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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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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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’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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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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