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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent , professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century. 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 1960s ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable." He was able to adapt his style to accommodate the changes in fashion during that period. He approached fashion in a different perspective by wanting women to look comfortable yet elegant at the same time. He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women and was known for his use of non-European cultural references, and non-white models.



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✵ 1. August 1936 – 1. June 2008
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Famous Yves Saint Laurent Quotes

“Fashion fades, style is eternal.”

Yves Saint Laurent

Variant: Fashions fade, style is eternal.

“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.”

Yves Saint Laurent

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

Yves Saint Laurent

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”

Yves Saint Laurent

Variant: The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

Yves Saint Laurent Quotes

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”

Yves Saint Laurent

“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.”

Yves Saint Laurent

New York Magazine (November 28, 1983), p. 53.

Hope , Sex , Clothes

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

Yves Saint Laurent

As quoted in "50 Days of Everyday Fashion" in Yours magazine.

Women , Beauty , Confidence , Fashion

“I don't really like knees.”

Yves Saint Laurent

Quoted in The Observer, 3 August 1958.

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