A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
YVES SAINT LAURENTSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
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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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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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I 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.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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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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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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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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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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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.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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If, 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.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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