Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhat is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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 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’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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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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