Yves Saint Laurent quotes:

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Dressing is a way of life.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

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. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

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.

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, 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.

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. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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.

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.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

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.

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

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?

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

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.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

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.

I don't really like knees.

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

I love bows, â?¦ And I feel some couture pots coming on.

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.

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.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

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.

Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.

The 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.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

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.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.