Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century. These motivational Yves Saint Laurent Quotes are about fashion, style, and glamour.
Best Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
- “Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.” – 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
- “Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” – 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
- “I love black because it affirms, designs, and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.” – Yves Saint Laurent
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“I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.” – 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
- “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
- “Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “For me, perfume must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Dressing is a way of life.” – 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
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“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” – 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
- “There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.” – 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
- “My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.” – 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
- “The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!” – Yves Saint Laurent
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“[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “A good model can advance fashion by ten years.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “I’m so secluded. Very alone.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “I don’t really like knees.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.” – Yves Saint Laurent
