I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTThe most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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 LAURENTTo be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
YVES SAINT LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
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 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 LAURENTHaute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing 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?
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’m so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
YVES SAINT LAURENTIt pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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.
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