I don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI don’t really like knees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe 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 LAURENTFashions 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDecadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good clothing is a passport for happiness.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI was born with a nervous breakdown.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIf, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWithout elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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