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'His [love] had a demonic acuity: he saw everything, sensed everything, and lived constantly on the lookout. But he had a nervous temperament and didn't go in for long studies of people's characters.'
— Sep 13, 2019 10:23PM
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Emmett
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"I belong to a generation and a world dedicated to elegance. I grew up in an environment that was very attached to tradition. At the same time, however, I wanted to change all that, because I was torn between the attraction of the past and the future that pushed me forward. I feel divided between the two and I think I always will be. For I know one world and I feel the presence of the other."
— Dec 05, 2019 07:06AM
Emmett
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'While Valerie Solanas proposed "cutting up men" in her SCUM Manifesto ... Yves offered [women] a much more powerful weapon: ambiguity that electrifies mystery. ... Yves Saint Laurent saw the body as a vine, a serpent, ready to move seductively, as a changeable being like Virginia Woolf's Orlando.'
— Nov 10, 2019 01:59AM
Emmett
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Benaïm's luscious prose is the artistic equal of the dresses described. Most impressive.
— Nov 08, 2019 08:31AM
