Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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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.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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