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
Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.