I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style,… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn,… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
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… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
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… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
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… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share