To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions come and go, but style is forever.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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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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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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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 love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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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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