Top 82 Yves Saint Quotes
#2. The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#3. I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#5. I believe in the Yves Saint Laurent woman who either has her hands in the pockets of her pantsuit or is holding her lover's hand. She doesn't need a bag.
Carine Roitfeld
#8. I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#10. I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.
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#12. I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
Natalia Vodianova
#13. For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#14. Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#15. I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#16. My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
Zachary Cole Smith
#19. Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) gave them power.
Pierre Berge
#20. I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#21. Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.
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#23. I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#24. One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
Pierre Niney
#25. I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
Lou Doillon
#26. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#28. My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
Bella Freud
#30. The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own.
Pierre Niney
#31. I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#32. Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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#33. A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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#34. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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#35. The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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#36. When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell
#37. At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
Alber Elbaz
#38. I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I've also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I'd only worn once or twice, but I'm one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.
Donna Air
#39. I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#40. Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.
Jerry Hall
#41. Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Coco Chanel
#42. I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#43. Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#44. Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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#45. Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.
Hedi Slimane
#46. All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
Frida Giannini
#47. I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#51. 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
#52. Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta
#54. I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
Tamala Jones
#55. I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#56. I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#57. I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.
Edie Campbell
#58. When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#61. I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes
but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#64. I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#65. What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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#66. I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
Melanie Laurent
#67. 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
#68. I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#69. The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#70. Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.
Carine Roitfeld
#72. For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#73. Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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#74. A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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#75. No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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#76. I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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#79. There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#80. Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.
Deirdre O'Kane
#81. What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
Edie Campbell
#82. Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
Yves Saint-Laurent
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