When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

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 tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.

Yves Saint Laurent Quotes