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
Yves Saint Laurent quotes about
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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.
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.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
I'm so secluded. Very alone.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
I don't really like knees.
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
I was born with a nervous breakdown.
Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.