[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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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.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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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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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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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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