Yves Saint Laurent Quotes

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

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

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

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

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.

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.

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

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

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Dressing is a way of life.

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.

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.

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

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

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.