Saint Laurent Quotes
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Saint Laurent Quotes & Sayings
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent
— Tom Ford
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
— Justine Picardie
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
— 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
The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own.
— Pierre Niney
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
— Coco Chanel
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
I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
— Suzy Menkes
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.
— Nicolas Ghesquiere
Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.
— Frida Giannini
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
— 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
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I don't really like knees.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.
— Zachary Cole Smith
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Dressing is a way of life.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
— 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
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
— Kanye West
Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.
— Deirdre O'Kane
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
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
— 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 that." ... I am not a dictator.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
— 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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
— 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, the dancer and the dance.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I was born with a nervous breakdown.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I'm so secluded. Very alone.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
— Edie Campbell
I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
— Melanie Laurent
Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.
— Hedi Slimane
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
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
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
— 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 outside.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion fades, style is eternal.
— 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
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
— 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
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
I love bows, ... And I feel some couture pots coming on.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
— 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 so numerous.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
— 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
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
— Yves Saint-Laurent