Yves Saint-Laurent quotes

Yves Saint-Laurent was a renowned French fashion designer, celebrated as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century fashion. His innovative approach transformed the way women dressed, introducing iconic styles like the tuxedo suit for women and ready-to-wear collections. He remains an enduring icon of creativity and elegance in the fashion industry. Here are 24 of his quotes:

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Yves Saint-Laurent

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

Yves Saint-Laurent

I don't really like knees.

Yves Saint-Laurent

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

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

Dressing is a way of life.

Yves Saint-Laurent

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Yves Saint-Laurent

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.

Yves Saint-Laurent

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

Yves Saint-Laurent

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

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

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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.

Yves Saint-Laurent