Yves Saint Laurent
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.Collection: Design
I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.'Collection: Famous
I'm so secluded. Very alone.Collection: Alone
A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.Collection: Great
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.Collection: Hope
When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.Collection: Beauty
Good clothing is a passport to happiness.Collection: Happiness
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Hope
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.
Dressing is a way of life.
I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.
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.
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
I'm constantly looking for perfection.
I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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 try to only be in agreeable circumstances.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.
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.
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.
Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
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.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.
I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.
I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.
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!
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.
Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.Collection: Fashion
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.Collection: Heart
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.Collection: Self Confidence
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.Collection: Shock
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.Collection: Feel Good
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.Collection: 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.Collection: Beautiful
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.Collection: Fashion
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.Collection: Dream
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.Collection: Empowered