Yves Saint Laurent may refer to:
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
I'm so secluded. Very alone.
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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 at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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.
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 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.
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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.
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.