The Top 30 Quotes about Life, Work, and Fashion From Yves Saint Laurent

originally December 14, 2021

1. “Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.” – Yves Saint Laurent

2. “Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.” – Yves Saint Laurent

3. “Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.” -Yves Saint Laurent

4. “When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.” – Yves Saint Laurent

5. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent

6. “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” – Yves Saint Laurent

7. “I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.” – Yves Saint Laurent

8. “I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.” – Yves Saint Laurent

9. “Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.” -Yves Saint Laurent

10. “Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” – Yves Saint Laurent

11. “Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.” – Yves Saint Laurent

12. “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.” -Yves Saint Laurent

13. “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” -Yves Saint Laurent

14. “Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.” -Yves Saint Laurent

15. “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.” -Yves Saint Laurent

16. “I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.” -Yves Saint Laurent

17. “Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.” -Yves Saint Laurent

18. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent

19. “Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” – Yves Saint Lauent

20. “The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.” – Yves Saint Laurent

21. “I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.” – Yves Saint Laurent

22. “I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.” -Yves Saint Laurent

23. “Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.” -Yves Saint Laurent

24. “When you feel good in a heart, anything is possible. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.” -Yves Saint Laurent

25. “I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They’re so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.” – Yves Saint Laurent

26. “It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.” -Yves Saint Laurent

27. “I am very happy to design haute couture. It’s a love story between couture and me.”What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.” -Yves Saint Laurent

28. “Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.” – Yves Saint Laurent

29. “I told myself repeatedly, ‘One day you will be famous.’” – Yves Saint Laurent

30. “I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy” – Yves Saint Laurent