Yves Saint Laurent may refer to:
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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.
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.
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.
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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.
Dressing is a way of life.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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.
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.
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.