Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent, was a French fashion designer, and is regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, "The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable." He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women and was...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth1 August 1936
CountryFrance
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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.
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.