Yves Saint Laurent Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Dressing is a way of life.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

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.

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.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Trivia

This are some of the places which game him awards: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC, USA), Hermitage (St Petersburg, Russia), Musee des Arts de la Mode (Louvre, Paris), Victoria and Albert Awards (London), Neiman-Marcus Award (LA, USA) and Council of Fashion Designers of America (NYC, USA).

In January 1958, shortly after the death of Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent (Dior's former assistant) unveiled his first collection for Maison Dior.

Yves Saint Laurent is a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter.

Yves posed nude in 1971 to advertise his fragance, but the ad was banned by various companies for being immoral and offensive.

His collection "Trapezium" gave him the nickname of "the little man of high couture."

Yves defines elegancy in two words: simplicity and originality.

When Yves Saint Laurent traveled to the West, he found the inspiration for his new perfume "Opium", that resembles the elegancy and sensuality of Imperial China.

Yves Saint Laurent was the first living designer that was honored in 1983 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Yves Saint Laurent has left designing but is still helping with his foundation.