Words matter. These are the best Yves Saint Laurent Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They’re so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
I’m so secluded. Very alone.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!
I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
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’m not deceived by people, because I don’t pay attention to people.
The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.
I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.
I hate fashion. I don’t have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.
I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.
My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.
If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
I’m constantly looking for perfection.
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.
A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.
I’m very sure of myself – what I do and what I like.
Dressing is a way of life.
Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn’t like to make a dress just for its own sake.
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
