Yves Saint Laurent Quotes - Page 3

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• I was born with a nervous breakdown.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Nervous, Born, Breakdown

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• There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Views, Transformed

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Defined

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• I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Bows, Pot, Couture

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Moving, Clothes, Giving

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Painting, Film, Very Happy

  "The saint: Yves Saint Laurent". Interview with Susannah Frankel, www.dazeddigital.com. March 2000.

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• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Clothes, Joy, Faithful

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• It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Pain, Pathetic

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Ideals, Ideal Woman

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Type, Models, Ideals

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I 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 Laurent

  Clothes, Pedestal, Sculpture

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Country, America, Patriotism

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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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.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Dictator, Abstract

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