Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Yves Saint Laurent - Page 2

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

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.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

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.

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

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.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

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.

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 don't really like knees.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

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.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

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.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

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.

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.

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.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

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.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.