Saint-Laurent, Yves quotes
1936 Algerian-Born French Fashion DesignerWe must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Elegance
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Dress
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Fashion
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Models and Modeling
Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Style
I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
Saint-Laurent, Yves
Twentieth Century