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.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Fashions 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.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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I 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.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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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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Le 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.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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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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