I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people. — Yves Saint Laurent Attention Copy Share Image
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. — Yves Saint Laurent Am Copy Share Image
Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me. — Yves Saint Laurent Ideal woman Copy Share Image
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me. — Yves Saint Laurent Couture 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
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion. — Yves Saint Laurent Fashion 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Body 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 Blue 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
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 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 Anxieties Copy Share Image
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent Dressed Copy Share Image
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous. — Yves Saint Laurent Be careful Copy Share Image
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films. — Yves Saint Laurent Artist 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
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees. — Yves Saint Laurent Fiery Copy Share Image
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion. — Yves Saint Laurent Defined 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 Accessories 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 Change 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
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful. — Yves Saint Laurent Beautiful Copy Share Image
To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves. — Yves Saint Laurent Arms 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 Fashion 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
