Yves Saint-Laurent Quotes

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

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

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

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

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

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

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

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

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

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

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.

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

Dressing is a way of life.

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.

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

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?

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

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

I don't really like knees.

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.

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.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

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

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.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

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

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

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.