Yves Saint Laurent Quotes - Page 2

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

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

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

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

I don't really like knees.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

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.

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.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

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.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

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.