Yves Saint Laurent

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

— Yves Saint Laurent

I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

— 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

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.'

— Yves Saint Laurent

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— 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

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

— Yves Saint Laurent

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

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 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

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

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

— 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

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 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

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 do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

— Yves Saint Laurent