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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTLe 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing 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?
YVES SAINT LAURENTI prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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 LAURENTAnyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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