Yves Saint-Laurent Quotes

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

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

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

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

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

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. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

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

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

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.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

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.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

Fashion fades, style is eternal.

I don't really like knees.

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

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

Dressing is a way of life.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.