Dressing 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 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 LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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 LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
YVES SAINT LAURENTNo more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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 LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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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