[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTModa je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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.
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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.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t really like knees.
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