French fashion designer (1936-2008)
[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Ritz, no. 85
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
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
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.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
"Some fashion wisdom from Yves Saint Laurent", USA Today, June 1, 2008
I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
"50 Days of Everyday Fashion", Yours Magazine
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
interview, Dazed & Confused, March 2000
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Ritz, no. 85
Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Interview Magazine
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.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
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. For him the truncated process of creating will always be an interrupted act of love, and his style will bear the shame of it, the impoverishment.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Ritz, no. 85
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
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
attributed, Glam Notes: 101 Ways to Feel Fabulous
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
New York Magazine, November 28, 1983
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
his ninth birthday wish, Dazed & Confused, March 2000