A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
YVES SAINT LAURENTPlaying with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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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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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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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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I 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.
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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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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