Yves Saint-Laurent quotes

" Fashions fade, but style is eternal. " # Style # Fashion # Love

" We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. " # Elegance

" A good model can advance fashion by ten years. " # Models and Modeling

" 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. " # Twentieth Century # Age and Aging # Lies and Lying

" 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. " # Dress # Simplicity # Modesty

" It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. " # Fashion # Women # Pain