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Yves Saint Laurent

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Yves Saint Laurent
Age: 71 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 1
Died: 2008
Died: June 1
Art Collector
Businessperson
Costume Designer
Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Grand Couturier
Wahran
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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I 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.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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