Yves Saint-Laurent quotes

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. (Yves Saint-Laurent)

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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.

Yves Saint-Laurent

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't really like knees.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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. (Yves Saint-Laurent)

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.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

Dressing is a way of life.

Yves Saint-Laurent

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

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-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

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. (Yves Saint-Laurent)

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.

Yves Saint-Laurent

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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.

Yves Saint-Laurent