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
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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.
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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.
I don't really like knees.
Elegance and beauty have been banished.
I was born with a nervous breakdown.