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Yves 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

Chanel gave women freedom. Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) gave them power. — Pierre Berge

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery — Yves Saint-Laurent

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

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. — Bella Freud

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't really like knees. — 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

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Fashions fade, style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright. — Frida Giannini

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. — 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 is] a kind of vitamin for style. — Yves Saint-Laurent

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

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

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman. — Laetitia Casta

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

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — 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

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

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns! — Tamala Jones

Elegance and beauty have been banished. — Yves Saint-Laurent