Quotes from laurent yves saint ii

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting ... but whatever it's worth I did it.

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish. For him the truncated process of creating will always be an interrupted act of love, and his style will bear the shame of it, the impoverishment.

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

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.