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.
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’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIsn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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 come and go, but style is forever.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIf, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTEach model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTModa je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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