Yves Saint Laurent

I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

— Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

— Yves Saint Laurent

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful…

— Yves Saint Laurent

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent