Yves Saint Laurent would have been 80 years old this week. Before his death from brain cancer in 2008, the legendary Algerian-born fashion designer led a whirlwind of a life: head designer at Dior ...
Yves Saint Laurent ... of opening his own atelier, Saint Laurent was infusing his creations with the maverick spirit of the 1960s. “There is a new trend in fashion,” he declared.
It’s a portrait of Yves Saint Laurent—not only through his fashion but also through his drawings. Sketch for a floor-length evening ensemble. Spring-summer 1989 haute couture collection.
Each location, distinctly different in design, from the high-tech postmodern architecture of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s Centre Pompidou to the gilded Neo-Baroque of the Louvre, instigates a ...