Yves Saint Laurent

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Dressing is a way of life.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

— Yves Saint Laurent

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

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 always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are…

— 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

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

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

— Yves Saint Laurent

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I don't really like knees.

— Yves Saint Laurent

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.

— Yves Saint Laurent