I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
YVES SAINT LAURENTTo be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I 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.
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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I 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.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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