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
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.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
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.
Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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.
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.
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.