Yves Saint Laurent

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived…

— 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.

— 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

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.

— 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

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an…

— 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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.

— Yves Saint Laurent

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom…

— Yves Saint Laurent

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

— Yves Saint Laurent