Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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 created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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