aesthetic ghosts

Watching Yves Saint Laurent's 2002 retirement speech gave me life this week. Quoting Proust and Rimbaud, this remarkable artist said, among other things:

• I have lived for my work and through my work
• Fashion's role was to...reassure them (women), give them confidence and allow them to assert themselves
• Every man needs aesthetic ghosts in order to live. I have pursued them, sought them, hunted them down
• I have known...anxiety, fear and terrible solitude...I emerged, dazzled but sober
• The most important encounter in life is the encounter with oneself

Yves Saint Laurent's Retirement Speech, January 7, 2002 from ketty mora on Vimeo.