I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint Laurent Am Copy Share Image
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth,… — Yves Saint Laurent Attractive Copy Share Image
I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me. — Yves Saint Laurent Doing 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 Clothes Copy Share Image
I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length. — Yves Saint Laurent Dress 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 Comes and goes Copy Share Image
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Copy Share Image
I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women… — Yves Saint Laurent Man Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Anxiety 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 Fashion 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 Big Copy Share Image
I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people. — Yves Saint Laurent Attention Copy Share Image
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. — Yves Saint Laurent Design Copy Share Image
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 Beautiful 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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Able Copy Share Image
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country. — Yves Saint Laurent Adore 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 1930s 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 Clothes Copy Share Image
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy — Yves Saint Laurent Beauty Copy Share Image
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like… — Yves Saint Laurent Accomplish Copy Share Image
