“I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between cou...” — Yves Saint Laurent Quote

“I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.”

“I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.”

“I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.”

“Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.”

“I design some of my own clothes now.”

“Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.”