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.Collection: Beautiful
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.Collection: Fashion
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?Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Add
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.Collection: Fashion
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.Collection: Fashion
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Christian
[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.Collection: Fashion
I don't really like knees.Collection: Knees
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Women
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.Collection: Expression
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.Collection: Fashion
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Clothes
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.Collection: Fashion
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.Collection: Fun
Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Men
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.Collection: Fashion
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Order
Elegance and beauty have been banished.Collection: Elegance
I was born with a nervous breakdown.Collection: Nervous
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.Collection: Fashion
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.Collection: Fashion
I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.Collection: Bows
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.Collection: Moving
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.Collection: Painting
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.Collection: Fashion
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.Collection: Ideals
Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.Collection: Type
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.Collection: Clothes
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.Collection: Fashion
I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.Collection: Country