I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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’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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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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 was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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