No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENTNo more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions come and go, but style is forever.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThere 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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