Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Quotations

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

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

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

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

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

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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.

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.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

Dressing is a way of life.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.