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.
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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 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.