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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I don’t really like knees.
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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 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 fade, style is eternal.
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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 have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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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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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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