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.
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 LAURENTMy name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTOver the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFor me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENT[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
YVES SAINT LAURENTWhen you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
YVES SAINT LAURENTLe 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTModa je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’m so secluded. Very alone.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
YVES SAINT LAURENT