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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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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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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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 like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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