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 LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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 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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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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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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 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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