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| Boilerpipe Text | Yves Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent in 1961
Pronunciation
,
also
UK
:
,
US
:
,
French:
[iv
sÉÌ
lÉÊÉÌ]
â
Born
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent
1 August 1936
Oran
,
Algeria
Died
1 June 2008
(aged 71)
Paris
,
France
Resting place
Jardin Majorelle
,
Marrakesh
31°38âČ34âłN
8°0âČ11âłW
ï»ż / ï»ż
31.64278°N 8.00306°W
Education
Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture
Occupation
Fashion designer
Years active
1955â1960 (
Dior
)
1961â2002 (
Yves Saint Laurent
)
Known for
Being the world's youngest
couturier
, founding fashion house
Yves Saint Laurent
Partner
Pierre Bergé
Parents
Charles Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (father)
Lucienne Andree Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (mother)
Awards
1982 CFDA International Fashion Award
1985 Oscar de la mode
1999 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
Website
www
.ysl
.com
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent
(1 August 1936 â 1 June 2008),
[
1
]
better known as
Yves Saint Laurent
(
,
,
;
French:
[iv
sÉÌ
lÉÊÉÌ]
â
) or
YSL
, was a French
fashion designer
who, in 1962, founded his
eponymous fashion label
. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century.
[
2
]
Saint Laurent's designs often combined elements of comfort and elegance. He is credited with having introduced the "
Le Smoking
"
tuxedo
suit for women, and was known for his use of non-European cultural references and diverse models.
[
3
]
Fashion historian Caroline Milbank called Saint Laurent "the most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years", adding that he "can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its
1960s
ashes and with finally rendering
ready-to-wear
reputable".
[
4
]
In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
with a solo exhibition.
Throughout his
couturier
career, Saint Laurent received acknowledgement for his work including the 1982 International Fashion Award from the
Council of Fashion Designers of America
, and being elevated to the rank of
Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur
in 2007.
Early life and education
[
edit
]
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born on 1 August 1936, in
Oran
,
Algeria
,
[
5
]
[
6
]
to
French
parents (
Pieds-Noirs
) with some Spanish heritage, Charles and Lucienne Andrée Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.
[
7
]
He grew up in a villa by the
Mediterranean
with his two younger sisters, MichĂšle and Brigitte.
[
7
]
As a child, he liked to create intricate
paper dolls
, and by his early teen years, he was designing dresses for his mother and sisters.
[
8
]
In 1953, Saint Laurent submitted three sketches to a contest for young fashion designers organized by the
International Wool Secretariat
. Saint Laurent won first place. Subsequently, he was invited to attend the awards ceremony held in Paris in December.
[
9
]
During his stay in Paris, Saint Laurent met
Michel de Brunhoff
, editor-in-chief of the French edition of
Vogue
magazine and a connection to his father. De Brunhoff was impressed by the sketches that Saint Laurent brought with him and suggested he should become a fashion designer. Saint Laurent enrolled in a course of study at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture,
[
10
]
the council which regulates the
haute couture
industry and provides training to its employees. Saint Laurent graduated at the top of his class. The same year he graduated, he entered the International Wool Secretariat competition again and won, beating his friend
Fernando SĂĄnchez
and
Karl Lagerfeld
.
[
11
]
Shortly after his win, he brought a number of sketches to de Brunhoff, who recognized close similarities to sketches he had been shown that morning by
Christian Dior
.
[
12
]
Knowing that Dior had created the sketches that morning and that the young man could not have seen them, de Brunhoff sent him to Dior, who hired him on the spot on June 20, 1955.
[
13
]
"Dior fascinated me," Saint Laurent later recalled. "I couldn't speak in front of him. He taught me the basis of my art. Whatever was to happen next, I never forgot the years I spent at his side." Under Dior's tutelage, Saint Laurent's style continued to mature and gain even more notice.
[
14
]
Although
Dior
recognised his talent immediately, Saint Laurent spent his first year at the House of Dior on mundane tasks, decorating the studio and designing accessories. Eventually he was allowed to submit sketches for the couture collection. With each passing season, more of his sketches were accepted by Dior.
[
15
]
Some Dior collections from this period contain themes that would appear in Saint Laurent's independent work years later, such as the smock tops and safari jackets in Dior's 1957 "Libre" line.
[
16
]
In August 1957, Dior met with Saint Laurent's mother to tell her that he had chosen Saint Laurent to succeed him as a designer. His mother later said that she had been confused by the remark, as Dior was only 52Â years old at the time. She claimed both she and her son were surprised when Dior died at a health spa in northern Italy of a massive heart attack in October 1957.
[
17
]
Yves Saint Laurent trapeze dress for Dior, 1958
In 1957, at 21 years old, Saint Laurent became the head designer of the House of
Dior
. His spring 1958 collection almost certainly saved the enterprise from financial ruin.
[
18
]
[
19
]
The simple, flaring lines of his first collection for Dior, called the Trapeze line,
[
20
]
[
21
]
a variation of Dior's 1955 A-Line,
[
22
]
[
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]
[
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]
catapulted him to international stardom. Dresses in the collection featured a narrow shoulder that flared gently to a hem that just covered the knee.
[
25
]
In his second collection for Dior, presented for fall 1958, he iconoclastically lowered hemlines by three to five inches
[
26
]
and was not greeted with the same level of approval that his first collection received, with some attendees and buyers considering it a major misstep.
[
27
]
[
28
]
[
29
]
Soon after,
Marc Bohan
was hired to assist Saint Laurent,
[
30
]
and the spring 1959 Dior collection brought lengths back to the knee in a well-received collection inspired by the 1930s,
[
31
]
noted for its suits
[
32
]
and sailor collars.
[
33
]
[
34
]
Later collections for the House of Dior featuring
hobble skirts
(fall 1959) and
beatnik
fashions (fall 1960) were savaged by the press.
[
35
]
In 1959, he was chosen by
Farah Diba
, then a student in Paris, to design her wedding dress for her marriage to the
Shah of Iran
.
[
36
]
His fall 1959 Dior collection focused on a skirt shape that bloused over a narrow band that hit at mid-knee for daywear and flared below the knee to the floor for evening dresses.
[
37
]
[
38
]
At least one skirt of similar shape had appeared at Dior for fall of 1955, soon after Saint Laurent's arrival,
[
39
]
and skirts of this form had been shown by
Simonetta
in 1957 and '58
[
40
]
[
41
]
and by Traina-Norell in 1958,
[
42
]
but Saint Laurent's 1959 versions were criticized for being both too short
[
43
]
[
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]
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]
 and too restrictive, "hobble skirts,"
[
46
]
[
47
]
a term that had long been used for
tight-kneed fifties skirts
.
[
48
]
The silhouette fit trends of the time also conveyed by
Simonetta
and Patrick de Barentzen
[
49
]
and included some high collars covering part of the face,
[
50
]
dark jewels worn high around the throat,
[
51
]
India-inspired eveningwear,
[
52
]
and jeweled bouffant coiffures.
[
53
]
He also showed a few skirts in other silhouettes.
[
54
]
His spring 1960 Dior collection did not attract as much attention, as it seemed more sedate and focused on Saint Laurent's expert suits, middy details, and full smocks over narrow skirts.
[
55
]
Saint Laurent's fall 1960 collection for Dior became his most controversial for the house. The dresses this time were a narrow but not fitted column that expanded into a slight pouf skirt below the hips and ended at the top of the knee, scandalously short for the time.
[
56
]
[
57
]
The inspiration was the bohemian dress of young intellectuals and artists and outfits were given names that reflected this, a turtleneck outfit named after a trendy café, for instance.
[
58
]
Other garments were modeled after bikers' black leather jackets, remade in crocodile and mink, and the showing closed with a group of at-home ensembles consisting of palazzo pants and fur pullovers.
[
59
]
The line's unconventional look was considered inappropriate for the mature clientele of the haute couture,
[
60
]
and the collection would be his final one for Dior.
[
61
]
In 1960, Saint Laurent was conscripted to serve in the
French Army
during the
Algerian War
.
[
62
]
Saint Laurent was in the military for 20Â days before the stress of
hazing
by fellow soldiers led to him being admitted to a military hospital. There he received news that he had been fired from Dior and replaced by
Marc Bohan
.
[
63
]
This exacerbated his condition, and he was transferred to
Val-de-GrĂące
military hospital
, where he was given large doses of sedatives and psychoactive drugs and subjected to
electroshock therapy
.
[
64
]
Saint Laurent himself traced the origin of both his mental problems and his drug addictions to this time in hospital.
[
17
]
1965 Mondrian dresses
After his release from the hospital in November 1960, Saint Laurent sued Dior for
breach of contract
and won. After a period of convalescence, he and his
partner
, industrialist
Pierre Bergé
, started their own fashion house,
Yves Saint Laurent
or YSL, with funds from American millionaire
J. Mack Robinson
,
[
65
]
cosmetics company
Charles of the Ritz
, and others.
[
66
]
A number of Dior staff joined him at his new enterprise.
[
67
]
[
68
]
His debut collection, presented for spring 1962, was noted for its suits
[
69
]
and included early examples of the cut-outs that would be popular in fashion in a few years,
[
70
]
but it received mixed reviews.
[
71
]
[
72
]
His second collection, for fall 1962, was celebrated as his best since his 1958 Trapeze collection for Dior.
[
73
]
[
74
]
Fashion writers ranked the collection with that of
Givenchy
as among the best in Paris.
[
75
]
[
76
]
It featured India-inspired evening dress, a mostly dark, rich color palette,
[
77
]
couture adaptations of traditional pea coats and fishermen's smocks (a theme seen as early as 1957 in his work for
Dior
),
[
78
]
[
79
]
and a refinement of the bohemian influences seen in his fall 1960 Dior collection, evoking in a number of journalists' minds Paris's
Left Bank
.
[
80
]
1965 knitted wedding dress
In the 1960s, Saint Laurent introduced or contributed to
fashion trends
such as the
beatnik
look (1962),
[
81
]
[
82
]
pea coats (1962),
[
83
]
[
84
]
smock tops (1962-63),
[
85
]
[
86
]
thigh-high boots
(1963, via his chosen shoe designer
Roger Vivier
),
[
87
]
[
88
]
the
Le Smoking
women's tuxedo suit (1966),
[
89
]
[
90
]
platform shoes
(1967, courtesy of
Roger Vivier
),
[
91
]
and safari jackets for men and women (1967).
[
92
]
Throughout the 1960s, Saint Laurent followed the international youth culture taking shape, a tendency already evident in his fall 1960 Dior collection. Like designers and others of the period, he kept an eye on the pace-setting streets of London
[
93
]
and also on the hippie movement emanating from the US.
[
94
]
[
95
]
[
96
]
He responded to the spare precision of
André CourrÚges
's groundbreaking
1964 and '65 Space Age designs
with the now-famous stark, geometric shift dresses of his 1965
Mondrian collection
[
97
]
but faltered a bit with the slightly passé
Pop Art
dresses in his autumn 1966 line.
[
98
]
He was the first French
couturier
to come out with a full
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
(ready-to-wear) line; although
Alicia Drake
credits this move with Saint Laurent's wish to democratize fashion;
[
99
]
others
[
who?
]
point out that other couture houses were preparing
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
lines at the same time â the House of Yves Saint Laurent merely announced its line first. The purpose of the
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
line was to provide a wider range of fashionable styles being available to choose from in the market, as they were affordable and cheaper.
The first of the company's Rive Gauche stores, which sold the
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
line, opened on the rue de Tournon in the
6th arrondissement of Paris
, on 26 September 1966. The first customer was
Catherine Deneuve
.
[
100
]
He designed the costumes for Deneuve in films such as
Belle de Jour
,
Heartbeat
, and
Mississippi Mermaid
.
[
101
]
Le Smoking
evening trouser-suits
In 1967, Ăditions Tchou published a book by Saint Laurent,
La Vilaine Lulu
(
The Villain Lulu
), a collection of comic strips featuring a cruelly mischievous little girl named Lulu that the designer had been sketching since 1956, when he had been inspired by a costume worn by one of
Dior
's colleagues. The child engages in pranks ranging from abusing hospital patients to defiling
André CourrÚges
's pristine white salon with black paint.
[
102
]
[
103
]
The revolutionary societal movements of the time
[
104
]
transformed Saint Laurent's thinking and he began to base his work more on what women were actually wearing than on abstract ideas in his head.
[
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]
[
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]
[
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]
A number of his designs were inspired by women's lives in the sociopolitical climate of the time,
[
108
]
particularly the trousers he showed in 1968 after witnessing the epochal
French uprisings
of that year.
[
109
]
[
110
]
Saint Laurent is often said to have been the main designer responsible for making women wearing pants more widely acceptable,
[
111
]
[
112
]
[
113
]
after
André CourrÚges
made the first strides in that direction in 1964.
[
114
]
The social transformations of the late 1960s also influenced how Saint Laurent himself dressed, as he wore more relaxed clothes reflecting the era's youth movements and let his hair grow.
[
115
]
[
116
]
His new personal wardrobe led to him presenting his first men's ready-to-wear collection in 1969.
[
117
]
In September 1968, Saint Laurent opened the first Rive Gauche store in the United States on
Madison Avenue
in Manhattan.
[
109
]
While in New York, he attended the exhibition of his costume sketches for ballet and theatrical productions at the Wright Hepburn Webster Gallery.
[
118
]
During this trip Saint Laurent and his entourage were denied entry to
Trader Vic's
restaurant because the women were wearing pants.
[
118
]
In 1971, he posed for a natural-looking nude photograph as part of the advertising campaign for his Pour Homme men's fragrance.
[
119
]
During the 1970s, Saint Laurent came to be considered the most prominent designer in the world,
[
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]
[
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]
[
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]
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adapting his designs to modern women's needs.
[
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]
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]
[
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]
[
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]
Though
Karl Lagerfeld
[
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]
[
130
]
and
Jean Muir
[
131
]
occasionally approached him in critical appraisal and popularity, Saint Laurent remained the strongest influence on fashion throughout the decade, an era when the societal advances of the 1960s required designers to defer to the public's demands for practicality and comfort.
[
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]
[
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]
Even in his sometimes lavish Russian peasant collections of the middle of the decade,
[
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]
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]
[
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]
the clothes themselves remained comfortable and wearable.
[
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]
[
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]
1968 "Safari" jacket for the Rive Gauche boutique
His controversial spring 1971 collection was inspired by 1940s fashion. Some felt it romanticized the
German occupation of France during World War II
, which he did not experience, while others felt it brought back the unattractive utilitarianism of the time.
[
139
]
The French newspaper
France Soir
called the spring 1971 collection "Une grande farce!"
[
100
]
His spring 1971 couture collection marked other changes. Now that the liberatory trends of the 1960s and early '70s had become established, with women released from constricting undergarments and free to wear trousers in all settings and men also free to be more casual in their dress, advances aided in no small part by Saint Laurent, he shed some of the less appealing aspects of the youth culture of that period, particularly after losing a couple of young friends to the drug experimentation of the time.
[
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]
While still exhibiting the pervasive relaxed, casual look, by 1972 he had begun to cut his hair and shave again and discarded the well-worn jeans and shoelessness.
[
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]
Saint Laurent had nurtured ready-to-wear to the extent that it now eclipsed the haute couture in prominence.
[
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]
In 1971, amidst heavy criticism of his 1940s-themed collection, he threatened to end his couture services entirely.
[
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]
Instead, Saint Laurent and a few others declared in early 1972 that they would now show their couture pieces with their prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter,
[
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but soon Saint Laurent began to worry publicly that the craftsmanship of the couture might be lost,
[
145
]
as well as the livelihoods of those who depended on him,
[
146
]
and he decided to carry on holding separate couture presentations.
[
147
]
While the
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
line became extremely popular with the public
[
148
]
and eventually earned many times more for Saint Laurent and Bergé than the
haute couture
line, Saint Laurent's decision to continue producing haute couture lines resulted in some landmark collections as well during the 1970s, most famously the fall 1976 Russian Peasant collection, which brought the popular peasant silhouette of the time to a peak of exotic luxury,
[
149
]
but also his spring 1978 Broadway Suit presentation,
[
150
]
which inspired the fashion industry to move toward wide,
padded shoulders
.
[
151
]
However, Saint Laurent, whose health had been precarious for years, became erratic under the pressure of designing two
haute couture
and two
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
collections every year.
In 1976, Saint Laurent and Bergé ended their romantic relationship but remained business partners.
[
152
]
Saint Laurent increasingly turned to alcohol and drugs.
[
153
]
At some shows, he could barely walk down the runway at the end of the show, and he had to be supported by models.
[
154
]
1988 "Homage to Vincent Van Gogh" jacket, embroidered by
Lesage
Saint Laurent is credited with initiating in 1978 the prominently
shoulder-padded
styles that would characterize the 1980s.
[
155
]
[
156
]
He then relied on a restricted set of looks based largely on big-shouldered jackets and narrow skirts and trousers
[
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]
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]
that wouldn't vary much for a decade,
[
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]
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]
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]
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]
resulting in some fashion writers bemoaning the loss of his former inventiveness
[
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]
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]
and others welcoming the familiarity.
[
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]
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]
[
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]
Where in the 1960s and '70s his work had reflected the democratizing trends of the time,
[
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]
during the 1980s his work conformed more to the tastes of the wealthy
[
169
]
as social inequality increased in society.
[
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]
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]
[
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]
His broad-shouldered wardrobe basics now seemed geared more to the ladies-who-lunch set
[
173
]
than the liberated, casual young women he had been inspired by in the earlier 1970s, and his work was now often grouped with that of
Givenchy
,
[
174
]
[
175
]
Valentino
,
Oscar de la Renta
, and similar designers.
[
176
]
[
177
]
He was noted in the early 1980s for his short, slim, sleek black leather skirts,
[
178
]
[
179
]
with versions in metallic gold leather receiving raves from socialites in 1981.
[
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]
After helping bring ready-to-wear to mass acceptance earlier in his career and nearly abandoning haute couture in the early 1970s, during the 1980s, with the nouveaux riches in ascendance and demanding showpieces,
[
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]
[
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]
[
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]
he refocused on his couture lines, to the extent that observers felt that his prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter was being neglected.
[
184
]
He was one of the last designers to give up big shoulder pads at the end of the eighties.
[
185
]
[
186
]
After a disastrous 1987
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
show in New York City, which featured US$100,000 jeweled casual jackets only days after the
"Black Monday" stock market crash
, he turned over the responsibility of the
prĂȘt-Ă -porter
line to his assistants. Although the line remained popular with his fans, it was soon dismissed as "boring" by the press.
[
100
]
In 1993, the Yves Saint Laurent business was sold to Sanofi.
[
187
]
He became increasingly reclusive, but continued to design the couture collection until 2002.
[
188
]
Saint Laurent's studio, with a
toile
for a Safari jacket
A favorite among his female clientele, Saint Laurent had a number of muses that inspired his work. Among them were: French model
Victoire Doutreleau
,
[
189
]
who opened his first fashion show in 1962;
[
190
]
Loulou de la Falaise
,
[
189
]
[
191
]
the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish model, who became the jewellery designer for the brand;
[
192
]
Betty Catroux
,
[
189
]
[
191
]
the half-Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat, who Saint Laurent considered his "twin sister";
[
193
]
French actress
Catherine Deneuve
;
[
189
]
[
191
]
French model Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain,
[
194
]
who inspired the
Le Smoking
suit;
[
195
]
American-French artist
Niki de Saint Phalle
, who also inspired the
Le Smoking
suit;
[
196
]
Warhol superstar
Donna Jordan
, who inspired his spring 1971 collection;
[
197
]
Mounia,
[
189
]
[
191
]
a model from Martinique who was the oft-used bride at his fashion shows; Kenyan model Khadija Adam Ismail;
[
198
]
Lucie de la Falaise
,
[
199
]
[
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]
a Welsh-French model and niece of Loulou, who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1990â1994; jewellery designer
Paloma Picasso
;
[
189
]
[
191
]
Dutch actress
Talitha Getty
;
[
201
]
[
202
]
American socialite
Nan Kempner
,
[
203
]
[
204
]
who was named ambassador for the brand;
[
205
]
Italian model
Marina Schiano
,
[
189
]
[
191
]
who managed the YSL boutiques in North America; French model Nicole Dorier,
[
206
]
who became the director of his runway shows,
[
207
]
and later, the "memory" of his house when it became a museum; and French model
Laetitia Casta
,
[
208
]
who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1998â2001.
[
209
]
Saint Laurent died on 1 June 2008 of
brain cancer
at his residence in Paris.
[
210
]
According to
The New York Times
, a few days prior, he and Bergé had been joined in a
same-sex civil union
known as a
Pacte civil de solidarité
(PACS) in France.
[
211
]
When Saint Laurent was diagnosed as terminal, with only one or two weeks left to live, Bergé and the doctor mutually decided that it would be better for him not to know of his impending death. Bergé said, "I have the belief that Yves would not have been strong enough to accept that."
[
212
]
He was given a
Catholic funeral
at
Ăglise Saint-Roch
in Paris.
[
213
]
The funeral attendees included the former Empress of Iran
Farah Pahlavi
,
Bernadette Chirac
,
Catherine Deneuve
, and President
Nicolas Sarkozy
and his wife,
Carla Bruni
.
[
214
]
His body was
cremated
, and his ashes were scattered in
Marrakesh
, Morocco, in the
Majorelle Garden
, a residence and
botanical garden
that he owned with Bergé and often visited to find inspiration and refuge.
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Bergé said at the funeral service (in French): "But I also know that I will never forget what I owe you and that one day I will join you under the Moroccan palms."
Yves Saint Laurent met Pierre Bergé in 1958. After falling in love, they co-founded the Yves Saint Laurent Couture House in 1961. They remained longtime friends and business partners after their amicable breakup in 1976.
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In 1970, Saint Laurent befriended pop artist
Andy Warhol
while the latter was filming
L'Amour
in Paris.
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Saint Laurent had his portrait commissioned in 1972, and Warhol traveled to Paris to photograph him.
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During a visit to New York in November 1972, Saint Laurent saw the portrait and remarked, "The colors are marvelous â orange, red, green, and pink."
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In February 1974, Saint Laurent hosted a party for Warhol to celebrate his one-man shows at the
Musée Galliera
and the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris.
[
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In 1973, Saint Laurent began a six-month affair with
Karl Lagerfeld
's companion
Jacques de Bascher
.
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Bergé ended their liaison in 1974, accusing de Bascher and Lagerfeld of being responsible for Saint Laurent's mental health issues and his increasing interest in hard drugs and
sadomasochism
.
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During the 1970s, Saint Laurent was considered one of Paris's "
jet set
".
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He was often seen at clubs in France and New York City, such as
Club Sept
,
Regine's
,
Studio 54
, and
Le Palace
, and was known to be both a heavy drinker and a frequent user of
cocaine
.
[
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Majorelle Garden
in Marrakesh
Saint Laurent and Bergé made their first trip to
Marrakesh
in 1966, which marked the start of a lifelong passion for Moroccan culture.
[
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Saint Laurent once stated, "Everything was black before Marrakech." "I learned color from this city, and I embraced its light, its bold blends, and its passionate inventions."
[
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For multiple years to come, Saint Laurent and Bergé would return and purchase various properties. They acquired Dar Es Saada in 1974,
[
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Villa Oasis 45 and Majorelle Garden in 1980,
[
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and Villa Mabrouka in 1997.
[
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The duplex at 55 Rue de Babylone on the
Left Bank
of Paris, which Saint Laurent and Bergé purchased in 1970, was highlighted in the May 1972 issue of
British Vogue
.
[
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French architect
Jean-Michel Frank
designed the apartment's interior in the 1920s in the
Art Deco
style.
[
227
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The apartment featured vases by
Jean Dunand
, stools by Pierre Legrain, a red lacquer-framed stool by
Gustave Miklos
, an armchair by
Eileen Gray
, and sheep chairs by
Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne
.
[
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]
In 1983, Saint Laurent and Bergé bought a neo-gothic villa,
ChĂąteau Gabriel
in
Benerville-sur-Mer
, near
Deauville
, France.
[
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Saint Laurent was a great admirer of
Marcel Proust
who had been a frequent guest of
Gaston Gallimard
, one of the previous owners of the villa. When they bought
ChĂąteau Gabriel
, Saint Laurent and Bergé commissioned
Jacques Grange
to decorate it with themes inspired by Proust's
Remembrance of Things Past
.
[
232
]
In February 2009, an auction of 733 items from Saint Laurent and Bergé's collection was held by
Christie's
at the
Grand Palais
, ranging from paintings by
Picasso
to
ancient Egyptian
sculptures. The proceeds went to HIV and
AIDS research
.
[
233
]
Before the sale commenced, the Chinese government tried to stop the sale of two of
twelve bronze statue heads
taken from the
Old Summer Palace
in China during the
Second Opium War
.
[
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]
A French judge dismissed the claim and the sculptures, heads of a rabbit and a rat, sold for âŹ15,745,000. However, the anonymous buyer revealed himself to be Cai Mingchao, a representative of the
PRC
's National Treasures Fund, and claimed that he would not pay for them on "moral and patriotic grounds".
[
235
]
The heads remained in Bergé's possession until acquired by
François Pinault
, owner of a number of luxury brands including Yves Saint Laurent.
[
236
]
He then donated them to China in a ceremony on 29 June 2013.
[
237
]
On the first day of the sale,
Henri Matisse
's painting
Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose
broke the previous
world record
set in 2007 for a Matisse work and sold for 32Â million euros. The record-breaking sale realized 342.5Â million euros (ÂŁ307Â million).
[
238
]
The subsequent auction, 17â20 November, included 1,185 items from the couple's Normandy villa. While not as impressive as the first auction, it featured the designer's last
Mercedes-Benz
car and his
HermĂšs
luggage.
[
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]
Accolades and legacy
[
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]
Rue Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakesh
In 1982, Saint Laurent received the International Fashion Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
[
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In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
with a solo exhibition.
[
241
]
In 1985, Saint Laurent was awarded an
Oscar de la mode
for his 'contribution to the history of fashion' at The Oscars of Fashion event in Paris.
[
242
]
In 1999, Saint Laurent received the
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
at the
CFDA Fashion Awards
.
[
243
]
In 2001, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of Commander of the
LĂ©gion d'Honneur
by French President
Jacques Chirac
.
[
244
]
In 2007, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of
Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur
by French President
Nicolas Sarkozy
.
[
245
]
[
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]
In 2004, Saint Laurent created a foundation with Bergé in Paris to trace the history of the house of YSL, complete with 15,000 objects and 5,000 pieces of clothing.
[
247
]
Forbes
rated Saint Laurent the
top-earning dead celebrity
in 2009.
[
248
]
In 2010, the street in front of the
Majorelle Garden
in Marrakesh was renamed the Rue Yves Saint Laurent in his honor.
[
249
]
In 2022, the "Yves Saint Laurent Aux Musées" exhibition was held simultaneously at six Parisian cultural institutions: the
Centre Pompidou
, the
MusĂ©e dâArt Moderne de Paris
, the
Musée du Louvre
, the
MusĂ©e dâOrsay
, the
MusĂ©e National PicassoâParis
, and the
Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
, demonstrating the enduring legacy of his work and his lifelong fascination with art.
[
250
]
This exhibition highlighted his connections to various art forms and his ability to blend fashion with artistic expression.
[
250
]
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris, housed in the old Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, opened its doors in 2017.
[
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]
Through a continuously updated collection display, the museum chronicles his career.
[
252
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The exhibition space was renovated by stage designer Nathalie CriniĂšre and interior designer Jacques Grange.
[
252
]
YSL museum in
Marrakesh
The
Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh
, also opened in 2017. Pierre Bergé personally chose the thousands of pieces of apparel and haute couture accessories housed in the 43,000-square-foot structure, which was created by the Paris-based studio Studio KO.
[
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Saint Laurent's childhood home in Oran, Algeria, where he lived until the age of 18, was purchased by the Oran entrepreneur Mohamed Affane. He transformed it into a museum, RĂ©sidence Yves Saint Laurent Oran, which opened in 2022.
[
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The period furniture was recovered and around 400 sketches by Yves Saint-Laurent are exhibited, along with childhood photos of the designer.
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Study of Yves Saint Laurent
by
Reginald Gray
, 1976
2002: David Teboul's
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times
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2002:
Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
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2009: Tout Terriblement
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2010: Pierre Thoretton's
L'Amour fou
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2014:
Yves Saint Laurent
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by
Pierre Niney
2014:
Saint Laurent
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by
Gaspard Ulliel
2019: Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections
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1965: Appeared on 24 October as a "mystery guest" on the American television game show
What's My Line?
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2024:
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
by
Arnaud Valois
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Raymonde Zehnacker recalls: 'Just after Monsieur Dior showed his last collection, [Dior] said, "Raymonde, I'd like to tell the press that thirty-five of those models were completely designed by Yves Saint Laurent."...'
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Yves Saint Laurent...at the age of 21 found himself perched upon the multi-million franc edifice of the most influential fashion house in the world....[W]ith his first collection,...he launched the [T]rapeze line....'Saint Laurent has saved France!' said the French headlines. 'The great Dior tradition will continue!'
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For the nation's largest industry, the well-being of its most prominent couture house was of great social and economic importance....Saint Laurent's first collection...was a resounding success.
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Dior produces his new A line, a triangle widened from a small head and shoulders to a full pleated or stiffened hem.
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Dior's...'A' line consisted of coats, suits and dresses flared out into wide triangles from narrow shoulders. The waistline was the cross bar of the A and could be positioned either under the bust in an Empire manner or low down on the hips.
^
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The dress sloped down from the shoulders to a widened hem just below the knee, maintaining a definite geometric line through precise tailoring.
^
"The Paris Demise of the No-Shape Chemise"
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Life
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The only designer to lower the skirt length was Yves St. Laurent,...who dropped his five inches. And where other designers' clothes looked young and scanty, St. Laurent's were often sedate and bundled up.
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Bucking the trend toward kneecap-length skirts, St. Laurent dropped his hems to mid-calf or longer. Some viewers called the move a mistake.
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'What does he think he is doing?' were the cries...when young Yves Saint Laurent of Dior dropped the skirt hem...[W]e do not believe this proportion will impose itself in general...
^
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...American store buyers are asking [St. Laurent] to shorten the hems...
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Marc Bohan...has been hired by the House of Christian Dior to help Yves St. Laurent turn out Dior fashions for New York and South America...
^
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The spring collection, the third designed by young Yves St. Laurent, is full of the feeling of the Thirties....St. Laurent...now shows the same length that is shown all over Paris â an inch or two below the knee.
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Dior's...classic suit in what might now be called the Yves League manner...
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At Dior,...a series of...middy dresses...
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...[H]is biggest news was a skirt that gathered at the waist and bloused slightly over the top of a six-inch band at the hem, giving the impression of a puffed tunic.
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The Dior look,...the surprise skirt, a slender pouf rounding over a straight short skirt. Early Paris cables called this the hobble skirt, a perplexment easily dispelled by pictures....Dior pouf-skirted suit,...the skirt bloused over a skinny hem....St. Laurent makes skirt news: blousing at the knee, caught into a narrow hem.
^
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Harem skirt â part of Dior's new Oriental feeling. This with narrow hem-band. [Dress with harem skirt that flares out from fitted bodice and then is drawn in at the knee with bloused fullness billowing above a 'hem band' that extends to mid-calf.]
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Simonetta's...[e]vening dresses..., all ankle length, were charmingly pre-1920. One was so shamelessly sentimental as to be both hobble-skirted and in pale pink satin....Suits and jackets have hem-tightened skirts...The wine-glass skirt...is a graceful adaptation of the harem skirt.
^
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Another wafting shape, by Simonetta, in a miracle of silk and wool chiffon that...hangs with new assurance. [A full, waistless sack/harem dress drawn into a constricting, bow-marked band at the knee-length hem, the fullness of the dress blousing over the knee-band.]
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High waist; balloon skirt...Black silk crĂȘpe, ballooned out lightly between a high waist, close hemline....at Traina-Norell...
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Day skirt-length news in Paris: Dior made the shortest, just grazing the kneecap and sometimes not quite.
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Yves St. Laurent was busy taking up hems â a move that some approved, although many disapproved â while everyone else was letting them down. Sometimes, he exposed at least the front of a shapely knee.
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...Saint Laurent dropped the hem by three [inches] for his [second] collection. Twelve months later [fall 1959] he bared the knees, and caused an uproar....Radio programmes ran discussions on the likelihood of bare knees in Britain, and one newspaper headline said, 'Dior's man can do what he likes. We won't show our knees!'
^
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...Yves Saint Laurent['s]...newly cut skirt...seemed to constrict the knees and then balloon above them. The skirt obviously was based on the hobble skirts of yore....The majority of the daily newspaper reporters immediately labeled it 'hobble'...
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...[T]he models hobbled and minced...They looked as if they might have been sped from the hand of Paul Poiret...
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...[Dior] suits have hobble skirts...
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...De Barentzen...showed...collars eye-high...with...two little pockets...
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...lace to the eyelashes.
^
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.
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A dramatic accessory note consisted of glistening four-inch-high chokers...
^
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Dior's...dress cut like an East Indian rajah coat...
^
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.
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Even coiffures were decorated with giant pins. These wre worn on top of foot-high chignons...
^
"Paris: Evening Clothes are Star Attractions Among New Fashions for Fall"
.
The New York Times
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Yves St. Laurent of Dior pouffed a short skirt in three bouncy tiers. In the red and black plaid taffeta he used for a number of young styles.
^
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Dior's polo shirt suits point to a fresh fling for the middy look...Dior's young smock...that falls loosely over a short narrow skirt.
^
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Vogue
.
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The basic line that Yves St. Laurent presents is a long, long torso with no hint of waistline, ending at various points below the hips in little balloon skirts â the balloon skirt revived and changed in character by its use on the unfitted torso....[223] The long-legged Dior girls with knees showing below the barrel of balloon skirts â skirts looking even shorter because of the long, long torso overblouses....[T]his silhouette couples a long, reedy torso with a billowed skirt, often startlingly short.
^
"Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"
.
The New York Times
: 31. 28 July 1960.
Dior has abandoned the waist, elongated the torso and shifted the emphasis of the silhouette to well below the hips in a most provocative collection...The proportion is simply this: two parts for the torso and one part for the skirt, which can be a slight dirndl or a supple, melon-like puff that exposes the kneecap when the model walks....His miniature skirts were nearly always attached to tubular, sleeveless tops.
^
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1960). "Paris: Surprises, Controversies, Allure in the New Collections".
Vogue
.
136
(4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 226.
Called 'CafĂ© de Flore,' after the famous student and intellectual hangout â a dress and jacket with a young, offhand charm. Grey wool flannel, slightly ballooned skirt; set-in turtle neck and watch cap of knitted wool.
^
"Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"
.
The New York Times
: 31. 28 July 1960.
...wide-legged hostess pants that could easily be mistaken for huge skirts....a fabulous white mink pullover and floppy, black velvet pants.
^
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1960".
Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion
. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp.Â
262â
263.
ISBN
Â
978-0-670-80172-5
.
Saint Laurent's decision to interpret...youthful street fashion in expensive materials caused a furore at Dior...His Left Bank 'Beat Look' included black leather suits and coats, knitted caps, high turtleneck collars, and biker-style jackets in mink and crocodile skin....Saint Laurent had failed to court the buyers and press by gently evolving a line collection by collection.
^
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1960".
In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue
. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 272.
ISBN
Â
978-0-14-004955-8
.
The beat look is the news at Dior...pale zombie faces; leather suits and coats; knitted caps and high turtleneck collars, black endlessly....Saint Laurent's...'beat' collection is the most unpopular look in Paris, and his last for Dior.
^
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^
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.
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.
The fashion house of Christian Dior...has bestowed the ultimate glory on...Marc Bohan. It has been announced that Bohan will replace...Yves Saint Laurent as chief designer.
^
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Archived
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.
He received financial backing from a variety of sources, including a businessman from Georgia and the cosmetics company Charles of the Ritz...
^
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Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion
. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 268.
ISBN
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978-0-670-80172-5
.
...Saint Laurent...was joined by many of the staff from Dior when he opened his own house.
^
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"Dior to Sue Yves St. Laurent"
.
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.
Approximately 25 [Dior] employees...have gone to work for St. Laurent.
^
"Better Living: The Best Suits Since Chanel"
.
Life
. Vol. 52, no. 9. 2 March 1962. p. 91
. Retrieved
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2025
.
Yves St. Laurent turned out to be the best suitmaker since Chanel. Mostly of tweed in off-beat color combinations, his suits had a crisp, young style...St. Laurent quickly sold out his first batch of suits to store buyers...
^
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962".
Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion
. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 269.
ISBN
Â
978-0-670-80172-5
.
...Saint Laurent...launched the brassiĂšre dress, an early example of the cut-out theme.
^
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An outstanding success was scored by Yves St. Laurent...St. Laurent's long, middy-like tunic, pear-shaped draped skirts and circus-pony headdresses on high coiffures were seen as fashion prophecies for 1963.
^
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.
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...St. Laurent, although he produced a very good collection, did not say anything new.
^
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Called a prodigy...in 1957...[h]is success was not repeated until now....His first collection was less than a smash but his second...has lifted him to the pinnacle of Paris couture.
^
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.
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St. Laurent's second collection for his own house was a glittering tour de force, greeted with the special kind of emotional fervour reserved for such occasions.
^
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"Praise Given to Givenchy Rivals St. Laurent Acclaim"
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: 35
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.
...[B]uyers are...acclaiming the Givenchy and St. Laurent showings as the great collections of the season...
^
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.
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...Yves Saint Laurent's second collection...established him firmly on a par with the Paris masters...
^
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In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue
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978-0-14-004955-8
.
...his black ciré satins with ruffs of black mink, his rajah coats and tubular dresses worn with turbans and dark stockings, his long pulled-down tops and barrel skirts, all worn with rich dark jewellery.
^
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1962). "Paris? The Answer: Yes".
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.
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Saint Laurent's...pullover tunics somewhat like a fisherman's overblouse...one in pale-grey satin, the most elegant fisherman's smock in the world, with sleeves gathered to a wide yoke...
^
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.
170
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For the winter of 1962, in his second collection at his own house, he taught the fashion world that smocks and pea jackets could be the height of chic.
^
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62".
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ISBN
Â
978-0-14-004955-8
.
The Left Bank look makes good now that Saint Laurent finds his independent fashion identity...
^
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62".
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. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 276.
ISBN
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978-0-14-004955-8
.
His autumn [1962] collection brings the Left Bank into the couture with total success.
^
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Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion
. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 277.
ISBN
Â
978-0-670-80172-5
.
Saint Laurent's 1960 beat look was belatedly adapted: Samuel Robery showed simple leather shifts, Scaasi presented black alligator trousers, Ellen Brooke used black lacquered alligator for windbreaker jackets, and mock alligator was chosen by Modelia for polo coats and by David Kidd for short coats.
^
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962".
Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion
. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 271.
ISBN
Â
978-0-670-80172-5
.
The most important coat to come out of the couture this year [1962] was Saint Laurent's 'pea jacket.' Modelled on the sailor's traditional double-breasted garment and already an American classic, it now gained lasting international popularity.
^
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.
Life
. Vol. 52, no. 14. 6 April 1962. p. 131.
Most Paris originals are first seen at high prices, gradually filter down to low. St. Laurent's famous pea jacket is an exception. He copied it from the humble sailor's coat...
^
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1963".
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. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 280.
ISBN
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978-0-14-004955-8
.
From Paris,...Saint Laurent's painter shirt and peasant's smock...
^
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. The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. p. 281.
By day the country look for the city was typified by St. Lauret's tweed smock worn de rigueur with heavy, textured stockings and walking shoes.
^
Peterson, Patricia (30 July 1963).
"St. Laurent and Chanel Designs New but Familiar"
.
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.
...[B]oots by Roger Vivier wrapped the leg to mid-thigh.
^
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Made for Walking
. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Fashion Press. p. 57.
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978-0-7643-5499-1
.
Yves Saint Laurent's fall...1963...visored caps, black leather jerkins, and Roger Vivier's towering cuissardes [thigh-high boots] in black crocodile...gave what [the
Daily Mail
'
s Iris] Ashley called 'a real space girl effect...'
^
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.
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. Retrieved
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.
In his Autumn-Winter 1966 collection, Yves Saint Laurent introduced his most iconic piece: the tuxedo....[T]he Saint Laurent Rive Gauche version was a success. The label's younger clientele was quick to purchase it, making the tuxedo a classic. Saint Laurent would go on to include it in each of his collections until 2002.
^
Emerson, Gloria
(5 August 1966).
"A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"
.
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.
Niki de Saint-Phalle, an American artist living in [France], has had the best influence of all on Saint Laurent...Miss Saint-Phalle...always wears trouser suits with...boots....Now Saint Laurent has copied her 'black tie' trouser suit in velvet and in wool....In wool, it has a very ruffly white shirt, a big black bow at the neck, a wide cummerbund of satin, and satin stripes down the rather wide pants. It is worn with...satin boots.
^
Emerson, Gloria (26 July 1967).
"Paris Couturiers Hedge All Bets"
.
The New York Times
: 26.
The newest Vivier shoe â some will be seen...in Yves Saint Laurent's collection â is called 'le socle.' It only means a thick platform sole. Socle is the French word for pedestal....Even when he designs a boot that covers the leg...there is often the platform sole...
^
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.
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Yves Saint Laurent first introduced the safari jacket in his 1967 runway shows. However, it was a one-off design created for a photo-essay for
Vogue
(Paris) the following year that made the design famous and quickly turned it into a classic.
^
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.
Saint Laurent frequently visited London during the sixties to find inspiration in the boutiques on King's Road.
^
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"The Fashion Decade: As Hems Rose, Barriers Fell"
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It was a decade in which the...rich stole their fads from hippies who rejected materialism.
^
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Yves...wandered into Central Park during a New York visit, remained, bemused, enchanted by the hippie scene. Who knows how this may affect the world's fashion scene.
^
Bender, Marylin (1 February 1968).
"A Little Newcomer Joins Cardin's His'n'Her Fashion Line"
.
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: 32.
...Yves Saint Laurent has endorsed...the hippie mood...
^
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"After CourrĂšges, What Future for the Haute Couture?"
.
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...[I]t was Yves St. Laurent who had the courage to say, 'We all needed CourrĂšges...He woke us up.'
^
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(5 August 1966).
"A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"
.
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: R53
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...[T]here are moments...when Yves Saint Laurent...strains too hard to convince the world how much he is hand-to-hand and eye-to-eye with the very young....[T]he pop art dresses in Saint Laurent's new fall collection...should have been...saved as a private joke for a few friends...Saint Laurent may have just discovered Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, but others did quite long ago.
^
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.
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^
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"Saint Laurent's Latest Creation: A Sadistic Little Lulu"
.
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...his first book, "La Vilaine Lulu"...published by Claude Tchou in Paris...Saint Laurent's sketches and text show the adventures of Nasty Lulu, who...has a horrid vocabulary[,]...whose confidant is an English-speaking white rat[,]...[who] drinks in the morning, sets fire to houses when people are inside them, and seems to loathe mothers....Lulu is a sadist....He began doodling Lulu...[i]n 1956...
^
"1956: La Vilaine Lulu"
.
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.
...[I]n 1967, the writer Françoise Sagan encouraged Saint Laurent to publish Lulu's adventures with the Ăditions Tchou. This album has been republished three times.
^
"Decoding the Styles of the 70's"
.
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: SM6. 30 December 1979
. Retrieved
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.
Take the antiâestablishment 60's...: the untamed manes of the flower children, the faded jeans of the affluenceârejecting hippies, the discarded bras of the women's liberation movement, the kneeâfreeing skirts..., and the streetâimitating gear of the radical chic...share...an antifashion attitude that became...powerful and pervasive...
^
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"Yves St. Laurent, New King of Off-the-Rack Fashion"
.
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. Vol. 71, no. 15. p. 93.
Five years ago [1966], St. Laurent went through what he describes as 'a horrible crisis'...He saw the young generation shaking off old taboos in clothes, in outlook, in behavior, creating a new environment. He desperately wanted to be part of it...'I began to realize that fashion can come from anywhere,' he says. 'Daily life is where a clothes designer belongs today'.
^
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.
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...Yves Saint Laurent is probably the activist of the French couture â he understands how young people feel, knows how they want to look.
^
Morris, Bernadine (2 August 1975).
"The Paris Couture: Serenely Relevant Most of the Time"
.
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: 38.
Yves Saint Laurent was the first of the couturiers to grasp the change in the attitudes of women...to clothes. First, he picked up inspiration from what people wore on the street, not eschewing denim, poplin and patchwork leather.
^
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.
170
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He owes his success, the full flowering of his talent, to the street and he knows it. Saint Laurent came to power in fashion during the 'sixties, when the class-compartmentalized and ethnic dialects of dress had begun to merge feverishly....[E]verybody's clothes...were...claiming values, politics...Saint Laurent's eclectic, empirical desire to transform the street's own ideas into something similar, better, touched by genius proved the triumphant form of modernism.
^
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.
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During the student upheavals in Paris in May [1968], [Saint Laurent] saw the girls and boys behind the barricades dressed...in pants...'They looked beautiful...,' he said...'Fashion is not only couture....Events are more important.'...[In] his last Paris couture collection, shown in July,...[p]ants outfits overshadowed more conventional attire.
^
Morris, Bernadine (15 August 1976).
"Fashion: Paris Report"
.
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In the late 1960's, [Saint Laurent] watched the student riots in Paris and came up with the pants suit, which everyone is still wearing.
^
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.
Leading Paris couturier Yves St. Laurent, from whose influence the vogue for trousers could be said to have stemmed, continued to promote them in his spring and fall [1969] collections.
^
Morris, Bernadine (7 October 1968).
"Even the Restaurateurs Concede That Pants are Fashionable"
.
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Pants...have the endorsement of...Yves Saint Laurent, who devoted a good part of his last Paris collection to them and now is selling them like blue jeans...The wider cut to the legs has won many adherents.
^
Morris, Bernadine (10 March 1970).
"Saint Laurent's American Sportswear"
.
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: 46.
Saint Laurent...helped put women all over the world in pants.
^
Peterson, Patricia (7 August 1964).
"This is the Look from the French Couture for Fall, '64"
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: 32.
Paris has finally approved of the pants suit, first started by Andre CourrĂšges in his spring collection....
^
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"Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue â Rive Gauche"
.
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...[Yves Saint Laurent] mused on the changes in fashion since he went to work for Christian Dior...'That was the time when everybody wanted to look very rich,' he said. 'Now [1968] I think it is the contrary....'
^
Morris, Bernadine (6 February 1971).
"The Romans Didn't Waste Any Time About Shorts"
.
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Until 10 years ago [1961], street clothes were very formal. Now that's all changed.
^
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.
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Now, Yves has designed his first, small collection of ready-to-wear clothes for men...
^
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^
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.
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A photograph of a nude Yves Saint Laurent...was used for the first YSL eau de toilette for men, Pour Homme, advertising campaign in 1971.
^
"Paris Report: Last Winter's Wardrobe Need Not Go to Thrift Shop â Yet"
.
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The presence of one designer â Yves Saint Laurent â overshadows the collections.
^
"Yves Saint Laurent: He's Still Flirting with the Midi Length"
.
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: 47. 23 April 1971
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...[H]is work...has been reflected in almost every showing of readyâtoâwear designers...[O]ther designers have been borrowing liberally from him.
^
Morris, Bernadine (26 July 1974).
"Courreges's Fun Belies Uncertainty of Couture"
.
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: 38.
...[W]hen Saint Laurent gets behind a style, the world generally follows.
^
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(21 September 1978).
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"
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He is the most influential fashion designer in the world...
^
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...Yves Saint Laurent...is now universally acknowledged
roi de la mode
[king of fashion].
^
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...Yves Saint Laurent always knows exactly what we want at exactly the right time...
^
Morris, Bernadine (29 January 1976).
"Saint Laurent: The Theme is Mannish"
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: 52.
...Yves Saint Laurent...simply tunes into the mood of the times and reflects it in uncomplicated clothes.
^
Morris, Bernadine (10 April 1975).
"Saint Laurent: A Classic Mood, A Comfortable Look"
.
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Yves Saint Laurent['s]...clothes...are nice, clean, casual clothes to keep a woman looking calm and controlled as she moves through the anxieties of modern living.
^
Morris, Bernadine (12 April 1978).
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The reason why he is the most copied designer in the world is because he looks at the way people live and the way they dress and then tries to make them look a little better.
^
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.
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...[I]t has been interesting to notice Karl Lagerfeld replacing Yves Saint Laurent as the favorite mentor of some American designers.
^
Morris, Bernadine (28 October 1977).
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The mostâapplauded collections...were those of the giants, Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe and Yves Saint Laurent.
^
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An American survey in 1975...reported that [Jean] Muir and Saint Laurent were the most widely copied designers in the world.
^
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.
In 1970, the women's movement began to take dress down an increasingly informal path. T-shirts, blue jeans, cutoffs, hiking boots, hair flowing freely...Women disposed of bras and freed their breasts under T-shirts or blue work shirts....Relaxed informality settled into the mainstream. In the '70s, political statements moved from buttons to...T-shirts.
^
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.
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Keeping up with fashion is being put down by busy, productive women who claim (a) they have no time for it, (b) it's a frivolous occupation, and (c) fashion is a conspiracy on the part of designers to persuade feather-headed women to keep pouring out money for clothes they do not really need but are made to feel they want.
^
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.
...[I]n 1974,...Saint Laurent created a Russian-themed collection....Saint Laurent's collection featured full skirts that fell below the knees, thick sweaters, capes, quilted gold jackets, velvet and satin knickerbockers, long fur coats and matching fur hats, and a new, and very distinctive, style of knee-length fashion boot...loose-fitting...
^
Morris, Bernadine (7 April 1976).
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Next fall's peasants, according to Saint Laurent, will wear boots and babushkas...
^
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The noise about Saint Laurent's big silhouette and folkloric look served to enhance his reputation...
^
Morris, Bernadine (2 January 1977).
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.
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...Saint Laurent's peasant look...did not attempt to constrict the body.
^
Morris, Bernadine (7 August 1976).
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Saint Laurent was the most successful and influential to combine the art of the couture with the economic realities of the prĂȘt-Ă -porter....By the mid-seventies he had settled into the role of supreme ready-to-wear designer.
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This was Saint Laurent's annus mirabilis. In a feast of theatrics and colour he showed his first famous Carmen dresses....Saint Laurent's autumn collection burst forth with romantic fantasy. For the day, he showed a collarless, slightly square jacket with Tyrolean fastenings, either plain or with a subtle stripe, worn over a dirndl skirt and Russian blouse, lying flat on the collarbone and simply tied. A dramatic shawl, Russian-style fur-trimmed hat and a hooded, velvet cape completed the look. Trousers were very narrow, and everything was worn with Cossack-style, baggy boots.
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The saddest moment of the spring ready-to-wear collections was the hackneyed offering of Yves Saint Laurent. What a pathetic decline for the former king of world fashion, who dominated design for...twenty years. One couldn't believe that the same man was responsible for what was paraded before the buyers and press. The loss of Saint Laurent's legendary color mixing, the rehash of decade-old designs, the afterthought accessories, left the audience confounded. One wanted to believe that Saint Laurent was not involved....[H]e appeared to have lost a very rare gift â his creative talent.
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There is no attempt to mimic street fashions, which the couture tried during the miniskirt years. There isn't too much concern with practicality. If the bouffant skirts with their layers of petticoats can't fit into a compact car, it is understood that their wearers travel by limousine. If the jeweled dresses require a lady's maid and a bodyguard, it is assumed that they are available....Givenchy calls his dresses Proustian...
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The Reagan influence wafted through the major cities like heavy perfume. Where the young had once been the apple of the fashion eye, the elders took over, wearing expensive suits and ball gowns. And youth followed the example. In its way, nothing said more about fashion than all those 15-year-olds in wing collars and black ties swimming like well-bred minnows in the wake of stately taffeta.
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Niki de Saint-Phalle, an American artist living in [France], has had the best influence of all on Saint Laurent...Miss Saint-Phalle...always wears trouser suits with...boots....Now Saint Laurent has copied her 'black tie' trouser suit in velvet and in wool....In wool, it has a very ruffly white shirt, a big black bow at the neck, a wide cummerbund of satin, and satin stripes down the rather wide pants. It is worn with...satin boots.
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French fashion designer (1936â2008)
| Yves Saint Laurent | |
|---|---|
| [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_Saint-Laurent_at_his_old_studio_of_the_same_name,_1961_\(cropped\).jpg)Saint Laurent in 1961 | |
| Pronunciation | [/ËiËv ËsĂŠÌ lÉËËrÉÌ/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"), also [UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English "British English"): [/- lÉË\-/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"), [US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English "American English"): [/- loÊË\-/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"), French: [\[iv sÉÌ lÉÊÉÌ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French") [â](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prononciation_de_Yves_Saint_Laurent.ogg "File:Prononciation de Yves Saint Laurent.ogg") |
| Born | Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1936-08-01)1 August 1936 [Oran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran "Oran"), [Algeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria "Algeria") |
| Died | 1 June 2008(2008-06-01) (aged 71) [Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris "Paris"), [France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France "France") |
| Resting place | [Jardin Majorelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden"), [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh") [31°38âČ34âłN 8°0âČ11âłWï»ż / ï»ż31\.64278°N 8.00306°Wï»ż / 31\.64278; -8.00306](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)¶ms=31_38_34_N_8_0_11_W_) |
| Education | [Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_Syndicale_de_la_Haute_Couture "Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture") |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 1955â1960 ([Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior "Dior")) 1961â2002 ([Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(fashion_house\) "Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)")) |
| Known for | Being the world's youngest [couturier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couturier "Couturier"), founding fashion house [Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(fashion_house\) "Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)") |
| Partner | [Pierre Bergé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berg%C3%A9 "Pierre Bergé") |
| Parents | Charles Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (father) Lucienne Andree Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (mother) |
| Awards | 1982 CFDA International Fashion Award 1985 Oscar de la mode 1999 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Website | [www.ysl.com](http://www.ysl.com/) |
**Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent** (1 August 1936 â 1 June 2008),[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-1) better known as **Yves Saint Laurent** ([/ËiËv ËsĂŠÌ lÉËËrÉÌ/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"), also [UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English "British English"): [/- lÉ\-/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"), [US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English "American English"): [/- loÊ\-/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English "Help:IPA/English"); French: [\[iv sÉÌ lÉÊÉÌ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French") [â](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prononciation_de_Yves_Saint_Laurent.ogg "File:Prononciation de Yves Saint Laurent.ogg")) or **YSL**, was a French [fashion designer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_design "Fashion design") who, in 1962, founded his [eponymous fashion label](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)"). He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-telegraph_UK_obbit-2)
Saint Laurent's designs often combined elements of comfort and elegance. He is credited with having introduced the "[Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking")" [tuxedo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tie "Black tie") suit for women, and was known for his use of non-European cultural references and diverse models.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yslbptr-3) Fashion historian Caroline Milbank called Saint Laurent "the most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years", adding that he "can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its [1960s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_Western_fashion "1960s in Western fashion") ashes and with finally rendering [ready-to-wear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-to-wear "Ready-to-wear") reputable".[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Goodreads-4) In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art") with a solo exhibition.
Throughout his [couturier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couturier "Couturier") career, Saint Laurent received acknowledgement for his work including the 1982 International Fashion Award from the [Council of Fashion Designers of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Fashion_Designers_of_America "Council of Fashion Designers of America"), and being elevated to the rank of [Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_officier_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur "Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur") in 2007.
## Early life and education
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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born on 1 August 1936, in [Oran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran "Oran"), [Algeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria "Algeria"),[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-5)[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-6) to [French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people "French people") parents (*[Pieds-Noirs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-Noir "Pied-Noir")*) with some Spanish heritage, Charles and Lucienne Andrée Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-biobio2-7) He grew up in a villa by the [Mediterranean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea "Mediterranean Sea") with his two younger sisters, MichÚle and Brigitte.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-biobio2-7) As a child, he liked to create intricate [paper dolls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_dolls "Paper dolls"), and by his early teen years, he was designing dresses for his mother and sisters.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent2-8)
In 1953, Saint Laurent submitted three sketches to a contest for young fashion designers organized by the [International Wool Secretariat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Wool_Secretariat "International Wool Secretariat"). Saint Laurent won first place. Subsequently, he was invited to attend the awards ceremony held in Paris in December.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-9)
During his stay in Paris, Saint Laurent met [Michel de Brunhoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Brunhoff "Michel de Brunhoff"), editor-in-chief of the French edition of *[Vogue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_\(magazine\) "Vogue (magazine)")* magazine and a connection to his father. De Brunhoff was impressed by the sketches that Saint Laurent brought with him and suggested he should become a fashion designer. Saint Laurent enrolled in a course of study at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture,[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:02-10) the council which regulates the [haute couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture "Haute couture") industry and provides training to its employees. Saint Laurent graduated at the top of his class. The same year he graduated, he entered the International Wool Secretariat competition again and won, beating his friend [Fernando SĂĄnchez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_S%C3%A1nchez_\(designer\) "Fernando SĂĄnchez (designer)") and [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice2-11)
## Career
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### The Dior years
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Shortly after his win, he brought a number of sketches to de Brunhoff, who recognized close similarities to sketches he had been shown that morning by [Christian Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior").[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-12) Knowing that Dior had created the sketches that morning and that the young man could not have seen them, de Brunhoff sent him to Dior, who hired him on the spot on June 20, 1955.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-13)
"Dior fascinated me," Saint Laurent later recalled. "I couldn't speak in front of him. He taught me the basis of my art. Whatever was to happen next, I never forgot the years I spent at his side." Under Dior's tutelage, Saint Laurent's style continued to mature and gain even more notice.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent3-14)
Although [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior "Dior") recognised his talent immediately, Saint Laurent spent his first year at the House of Dior on mundane tasks, decorating the studio and designing accessories. Eventually he was allowed to submit sketches for the couture collection. With each passing season, more of his sketches were accepted by Dior.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-15) Some Dior collections from this period contain themes that would appear in Saint Laurent's independent work years later, such as the smock tops and safari jackets in Dior's 1957 "Libre" line.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-16)
In August 1957, Dior met with Saint Laurent's mother to tell her that he had chosen Saint Laurent to succeed him as a designer. His mother later said that she had been confused by the remark, as Dior was only 52 years old at the time. She claimed both she and her son were surprised when Dior died at a health spa in northern Italy of a massive heart attack in October 1957.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice3-17)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_St_Laurent_early_gown_deYoung_Museum_San_Francisco.jpg)
Yves Saint Laurent trapeze dress for Dior, 1958
In 1957, at 21 years old, Saint Laurent became the head designer of the House of [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior_S.A. "Christian Dior S.A."). His spring 1958 collection almost certainly saved the enterprise from financial ruin.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-18)[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-19) The simple, flaring lines of his first collection for Dior, called the Trapeze line,[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-20)[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-21) a variation of Dior's 1955 A-Line,[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-22)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-23)[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-24) catapulted him to international stardom. Dresses in the collection featured a narrow shoulder that flared gently to a hem that just covered the knee.[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-25)
In his second collection for Dior, presented for fall 1958, he iconoclastically lowered hemlines by three to five inches[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-26) and was not greeted with the same level of approval that his first collection received, with some attendees and buyers considering it a major misstep.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-27)[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-28)[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-29) Soon after, [Marc Bohan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bohan "Marc Bohan") was hired to assist Saint Laurent,[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-30) and the spring 1959 Dior collection brought lengths back to the knee in a well-received collection inspired by the 1930s,[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-31) noted for its suits[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-32) and sailor collars.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-33)[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-34) Later collections for the House of Dior featuring [hobble skirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobble_skirt "Hobble skirt") (fall 1959) and [beatnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik "Beatnik") fashions (fall 1960) were savaged by the press.[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-35)
In 1959, he was chosen by [Farah Diba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Diba "Farah Diba"), then a student in Paris, to design her wedding dress for her marriage to the [Shah of Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_of_Iran "Shah of Iran").[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-36)
His fall 1959 Dior collection focused on a skirt shape that bloused over a narrow band that hit at mid-knee for daywear and flared below the knee to the floor for evening dresses.[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-37)[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-38) At least one skirt of similar shape had appeared at Dior for fall of 1955, soon after Saint Laurent's arrival,[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-39) and skirts of this form had been shown by [Simonetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Colonna_di_Cesar%C3%B2 "Simonetta Colonna di CesarĂČ") in 1957 and '58[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-40)[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-41) and by Traina-Norell in 1958,[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-42) but Saint Laurent's 1959 versions were criticized for being both too short[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-43)[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-44)[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-45) and too restrictive, "hobble skirts,"[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-46)[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-47) a term that had long been used for [tight-kneed fifties skirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobble_skirt#The_post-hobble_skirt_era "Hobble skirt").[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-48) The silhouette fit trends of the time also conveyed by [Simonetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Colonna_di_Cesar%C3%B2 "Simonetta Colonna di CesarĂČ") and Patrick de Barentzen[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-49) and included some high collars covering part of the face,[\[50\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-50) dark jewels worn high around the throat,[\[51\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-51) India-inspired eveningwear,[\[52\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-52) and jeweled bouffant coiffures.[\[53\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-53) He also showed a few skirts in other silhouettes.[\[54\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-54) His spring 1960 Dior collection did not attract as much attention, as it seemed more sedate and focused on Saint Laurent's expert suits, middy details, and full smocks over narrow skirts.[\[55\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-55)
Saint Laurent's fall 1960 collection for Dior became his most controversial for the house. The dresses this time were a narrow but not fitted column that expanded into a slight pouf skirt below the hips and ended at the top of the knee, scandalously short for the time.[\[56\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-56)[\[57\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-57) The inspiration was the bohemian dress of young intellectuals and artists and outfits were given names that reflected this, a turtleneck outfit named after a trendy café, for instance.[\[58\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-58) Other garments were modeled after bikers' black leather jackets, remade in crocodile and mink, and the showing closed with a group of at-home ensembles consisting of palazzo pants and fur pullovers.[\[59\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-59) The line's unconventional look was considered inappropriate for the mature clientele of the haute couture,[\[60\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-60) and the collection would be his final one for Dior.[\[61\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-61)
In 1960, Saint Laurent was conscripted to serve in the [French Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Army "French Army") during the [Algerian War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War "Algerian War").[\[62\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-62)
Saint Laurent was in the military for 20 days before the stress of [hazing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazing "Hazing") by fellow soldiers led to him being admitted to a military hospital. There he received news that he had been fired from Dior and replaced by [Marc Bohan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bohan "Marc Bohan").[\[63\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-63) This exacerbated his condition, and he was transferred to [Val-de-GrĂące](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-de-Gr%C3%A2ce "Val-de-GrĂące") [military hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_hospital "Military hospital"), where he was given large doses of sedatives and psychoactive drugs and subjected to [electroshock therapy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroshock_therapy "Electroshock therapy").[\[64\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-64) Saint Laurent himself traced the origin of both his mental problems and his drug addictions to this time in hospital.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice3-17)
### The YSL years
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[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mondriaanmode_door_Yves_St_Laurent_\(1966\).jpg)
1965 Mondrian dresses
After his release from the hospital in November 1960, Saint Laurent sued Dior for [breach of contract](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_contract "Breach of contract") and won. After a period of convalescence, he and his [partner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_other "Significant other"), industrialist [Pierre Bergé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berg%C3%A9 "Pierre Bergé"), started their own fashion house, [Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)") or YSL, with funds from American millionaire [J. Mack Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mack_Robinson "J. Mack Robinson"),[\[65\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-65) cosmetics company [Charles of the Ritz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_of_the_Ritz "Charles of the Ritz"), and others.[\[66\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-66) A number of Dior staff joined him at his new enterprise.[\[67\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-67)[\[68\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-68)
His debut collection, presented for spring 1962, was noted for its suits[\[69\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-69) and included early examples of the cut-outs that would be popular in fashion in a few years,[\[70\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-70) but it received mixed reviews.[\[71\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-71)[\[72\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-72) His second collection, for fall 1962, was celebrated as his best since his 1958 Trapeze collection for Dior.[\[73\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-73)[\[74\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-74) Fashion writers ranked the collection with that of [Givenchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Givenchy "Hubert de Givenchy") as among the best in Paris.[\[75\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-75)[\[76\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-76) It featured India-inspired evening dress, a mostly dark, rich color palette,[\[77\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-77) couture adaptations of traditional pea coats and fishermen's smocks (a theme seen as early as 1957 in his work for [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior")),[\[78\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-78)[\[79\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-79) and a refinement of the bohemian influences seen in his fall 1960 Dior collection, evoking in a number of journalists' minds Paris's [Left Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche "Rive Gauche").[\[80\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-80)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_Saint_Laurent_vintage_knit_dress_deYoung_Museum.jpg)
1965 knitted wedding dress
In the 1960s, Saint Laurent introduced or contributed to [fashion trends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_trend "Fashion trend") such as the [beatnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik "Beatnik") look (1962),[\[81\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-81)[\[82\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-82) pea coats (1962),[\[83\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-83)[\[84\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-84) smock tops (1962-63),[\[85\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-85)[\[86\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-86) [thigh-high boots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thigh-high_boots "Thigh-high boots") (1963, via his chosen shoe designer [Roger Vivier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vivier "Roger Vivier")),[\[87\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-87)[\[88\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-88) the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") women's tuxedo suit (1966),[\[89\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-89)[\[90\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-nytimes.com2-90) [platform shoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_shoe#1960s_and_1970s "Platform shoe") (1967, courtesy of [Roger Vivier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vivier "Roger Vivier")),[\[91\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-91) and safari jackets for men and women (1967).[\[92\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-92)
Throughout the 1960s, Saint Laurent followed the international youth culture taking shape, a tendency already evident in his fall 1960 Dior collection. Like designers and others of the period, he kept an eye on the pace-setting streets of London[\[93\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-93) and also on the hippie movement emanating from the US.[\[94\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-94)[\[95\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-95)[\[96\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-96) He responded to the spare precision of [André CourrÚges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "André CourrÚges")'s groundbreaking [1964 and '65 Space Age designs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges#1964-65 "André CourrÚges") with the now-famous stark, geometric shift dresses of his 1965 [Mondrian collection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrian_Collection "Mondrian Collection")[\[97\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-97) but faltered a bit with the slightly passé [Pop Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art "Pop Art") dresses in his autumn 1966 line.[\[98\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-98)
He was the first French *couturier* to come out with a full *[prĂȘt-Ă -porter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAt-%C3%A0-porter "PrĂȘt-Ă -porter")* (ready-to-wear) line; although [Alicia Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Drake "Alicia Drake") credits this move with Saint Laurent's wish to democratize fashion;[\[99\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-drake2-99) others\[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions "Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch")*\] point out that other couture houses were preparing *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* lines at the same time â the House of Yves Saint Laurent merely announced its line first. The purpose of the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line was to provide a wider range of fashionable styles being available to choose from in the market, as they were affordable and cheaper.
The first of the company's Rive Gauche stores, which sold the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line, opened on the rue de Tournon in the [6th arrondissement of Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_arrondissement_of_Paris "6th arrondissement of Paris"), on 26 September 1966. The first customer was [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve").[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100) He designed the costumes for Deneuve in films such as *[Belle de Jour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_\(film\) "Belle de Jour (film)")*, [*Heartbeat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chamade_\(film\) "La Chamade (film)"), and *[Mississippi Mermaid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Mermaid "Mississippi Mermaid")*.[\[101\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-101)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_St_Laurent_le_smoking_at_deYoung_Museum_San_Francisco.jpg)
[Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") evening trouser-suits
In 1967, Ăditions Tchou published a book by Saint Laurent, *La Vilaine Lulu* (*The Villain Lulu*), a collection of comic strips featuring a cruelly mischievous little girl named Lulu that the designer had been sketching since 1956, when he had been inspired by a costume worn by one of [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior")'s colleagues. The child engages in pranks ranging from abusing hospital patients to defiling [AndrĂ© CourrĂšges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "AndrĂ© CourrĂšges")'s pristine white salon with black paint.[\[102\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-102)[\[103\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-103)
The revolutionary societal movements of the time[\[104\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-104) transformed Saint Laurent's thinking and he began to base his work more on what women were actually wearing than on abstract ideas in his head.[\[105\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-105)[\[106\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-106)[\[107\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-107) A number of his designs were inspired by women's lives in the sociopolitical climate of the time,[\[108\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-108) particularly the trousers he showed in 1968 after witnessing the epochal [French uprisings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 "May 68") of that year.[\[109\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:0-109)[\[110\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-110) Saint Laurent is often said to have been the main designer responsible for making women wearing pants more widely acceptable,[\[111\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-111)[\[112\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-112)[\[113\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-113) after [André CourrÚges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "André CourrÚges") made the first strides in that direction in 1964.[\[114\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-114)
The social transformations of the late 1960s also influenced how Saint Laurent himself dressed, as he wore more relaxed clothes reflecting the era's youth movements and let his hair grow.[\[115\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-115)[\[116\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-116) His new personal wardrobe led to him presenting his first men's ready-to-wear collection in 1969.[\[117\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-117)
In September 1968, Saint Laurent opened the first Rive Gauche store in the United States on [Madison Avenue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Avenue "Madison Avenue") in Manhattan.[\[109\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:0-109) While in New York, he attended the exhibition of his costume sketches for ballet and theatrical productions at the Wright Hepburn Webster Gallery.[\[118\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:2-118) During this trip Saint Laurent and his entourage were denied entry to [Trader Vic's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Vic%27s "Trader Vic's") restaurant because the women were wearing pants.[\[118\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:2-118)
In 1971, he posed for a natural-looking nude photograph as part of the advertising campaign for his Pour Homme men's fragrance.[\[119\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-119)
During the 1970s, Saint Laurent came to be considered the most prominent designer in the world,[\[120\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-120)[\[121\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-121)[\[122\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-122)[\[123\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-123)[\[124\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-124) adapting his designs to modern women's needs.[\[125\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-125)[\[126\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-126)[\[127\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-127)[\[128\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-128) Though [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld")[\[129\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-129)[\[130\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-130) and [Jean Muir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Muir "Jean Muir")[\[131\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-131) occasionally approached him in critical appraisal and popularity, Saint Laurent remained the strongest influence on fashion throughout the decade, an era when the societal advances of the 1960s required designers to defer to the public's demands for practicality and comfort.[\[132\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-132)[\[133\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-133) Even in his sometimes lavish Russian peasant collections of the middle of the decade,[\[134\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-134)[\[135\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-135)[\[136\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-136) the clothes themselves remained comfortable and wearable.[\[137\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-137)[\[138\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-138)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Laurent_Rive_Gauche_%22Safari%22_jacket.jpg)
1968 "Safari" jacket for the Rive Gauche boutique
His controversial spring 1971 collection was inspired by 1940s fashion. Some felt it romanticized the [German occupation of France during World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_France_during_World_War_II "German occupation of France during World War II"), which he did not experience, while others felt it brought back the unattractive utilitarianism of the time.[\[139\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:3-139) The French newspaper *[France Soir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Soir "France Soir")* called the spring 1971 collection "Une grande farce!"[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100)
His spring 1971 couture collection marked other changes. Now that the liberatory trends of the 1960s and early '70s had become established, with women released from constricting undergarments and free to wear trousers in all settings and men also free to be more casual in their dress, advances aided in no small part by Saint Laurent, he shed some of the less appealing aspects of the youth culture of that period, particularly after losing a couple of young friends to the drug experimentation of the time.[\[140\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-140) While still exhibiting the pervasive relaxed, casual look, by 1972 he had begun to cut his hair and shave again and discarded the well-worn jeans and shoelessness.[\[141\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-141) Saint Laurent had nurtured ready-to-wear to the extent that it now eclipsed the haute couture in prominence.[\[142\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-142) In 1971, amidst heavy criticism of his 1940s-themed collection, he threatened to end his couture services entirely.[\[143\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-143) Instead, Saint Laurent and a few others declared in early 1972 that they would now show their couture pieces with their prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter,[\[144\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-144) but soon Saint Laurent began to worry publicly that the craftsmanship of the couture might be lost,[\[145\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-145) as well as the livelihoods of those who depended on him,[\[146\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-146) and he decided to carry on holding separate couture presentations.[\[147\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-147)
While the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line became extremely popular with the public[\[148\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-148) and eventually earned many times more for Saint Laurent and BergĂ© than the *haute couture* line, Saint Laurent's decision to continue producing haute couture lines resulted in some landmark collections as well during the 1970s, most famously the fall 1976 Russian Peasant collection, which brought the popular peasant silhouette of the time to a peak of exotic luxury,[\[149\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-149) but also his spring 1978 Broadway Suit presentation,[\[150\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-150) which inspired the fashion industry to move toward wide, [padded shoulders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_pad_\(fashion\)#Fall_1978 "Shoulder pad (fashion)").[\[151\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-151) However, Saint Laurent, whose health had been precarious for years, became erratic under the pressure of designing two *[haute couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture "Haute couture")* and two *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* collections every year.
In 1976, Saint Laurent and Bergé ended their romantic relationship but remained business partners.[\[152\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-glbtq2-152) Saint Laurent increasingly turned to alcohol and drugs.[\[153\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-153) At some shows, he could barely walk down the runway at the end of the show, and he had to be supported by models.[\[154\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-154)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1988_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Jacket,_%22Homage_to_Vincent_van_Gogh%22_\(Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent,_Paris\).jpg)
1988 "Homage to Vincent Van Gogh" jacket, embroidered by [Lesage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Lesage "François Lesage")
Saint Laurent is credited with initiating in 1978 the prominently [shoulder-padded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_pads_\(fashion\)#Fall_1978 "Shoulder pads (fashion)") styles that would characterize the 1980s.[\[155\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-155)[\[156\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-156) He then relied on a restricted set of looks based largely on big-shouldered jackets and narrow skirts and trousers[\[157\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-157)[\[158\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-158) that wouldn't vary much for a decade,[\[159\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-159)[\[160\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-160)[\[161\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-161)[\[162\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-162) resulting in some fashion writers bemoaning the loss of his former inventiveness[\[163\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-163)[\[164\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-164) and others welcoming the familiarity.[\[165\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-165)[\[166\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-166)[\[167\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-167) Where in the 1960s and '70s his work had reflected the democratizing trends of the time,[\[168\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-168) during the 1980s his work conformed more to the tastes of the wealthy[\[169\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-169) as social inequality increased in society.[\[170\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-170)[\[171\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-171)[\[172\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-172) His broad-shouldered wardrobe basics now seemed geared more to the ladies-who-lunch set[\[173\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-173) than the liberated, casual young women he had been inspired by in the earlier 1970s, and his work was now often grouped with that of [Givenchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Givenchy "Hubert de Givenchy"),[\[174\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-174)[\[175\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-175) [Valentino](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_\(fashion_designer\) "Valentino (fashion designer)"), [Oscar de la Renta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_de_la_Renta "Oscar de la Renta"), and similar designers.[\[176\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-176)[\[177\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-177) He was noted in the early 1980s for his short, slim, sleek black leather skirts,[\[178\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-178)[\[179\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-179) with versions in metallic gold leather receiving raves from socialites in 1981.[\[180\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-180) After helping bring ready-to-wear to mass acceptance earlier in his career and nearly abandoning haute couture in the early 1970s, during the 1980s, with the nouveaux riches in ascendance and demanding showpieces,[\[181\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-181)[\[182\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-182)[\[183\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-183) he refocused on his couture lines, to the extent that observers felt that his prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter was being neglected.[\[184\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-184) He was one of the last designers to give up big shoulder pads at the end of the eighties.[\[185\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-185)[\[186\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-186)
After a disastrous 1987 *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* show in New York City, which featured US\$100,000 jeweled casual jackets only days after the ["Black Monday" stock market crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_\(1987\) "Black Monday (1987)"), he turned over the responsibility of the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line to his assistants. Although the line remained popular with his fans, it was soon dismissed as "boring" by the press.[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100)
In 1993, the Yves Saint Laurent business was sold to Sanofi.[\[187\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-187) He became increasingly reclusive, but continued to design the couture collection until 2002.[\[188\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-188)
### Muses
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Saint Laurent's studio, with a [toile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toile "Toile") for a Safari jacket
A favorite among his female clientele, Saint Laurent had a number of muses that inspired his work. Among them were: French model [Victoire Doutreleau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoire_Doutreleau "Victoire Doutreleau"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189) who opened his first fashion show in 1962;[\[190\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-190) [Loulou de la Falaise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loulou_de_la_Falaise "Loulou de la Falaise"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish model, who became the jewellery designer for the brand;[\[192\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-192) [Betty Catroux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Catroux "Betty Catroux"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) the half-Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat, who Saint Laurent considered his "twin sister";[\[193\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-193) French actress [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve");[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) French model Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain,[\[194\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-194) who inspired the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") suit;[\[195\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-195) American-French artist [Niki de Saint Phalle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_de_Saint_Phalle "Niki de Saint Phalle"), who also inspired the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") suit;[\[196\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-nytimes.com3-196) [Warhol superstar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_superstars "Warhol superstars") [Donna Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jordan "Donna Jordan"), who inspired his spring 1971 collection;[\[197\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-197) Mounia,[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) a model from Martinique who was the oft-used bride at his fashion shows; Kenyan model Khadija Adam Ismail;[\[198\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-198) [Lucie de la Falaise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_de_la_Falaise "Lucie de la Falaise"),[\[199\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-199)[\[200\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-200) a Welsh-French model and niece of Loulou, who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1990â1994; jewellery designer [Paloma Picasso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paloma_Picasso "Paloma Picasso");[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) Dutch actress [Talitha Getty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitha_Getty "Talitha Getty");[\[201\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-201)[\[202\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-202) American socialite [Nan Kempner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Kempner "Nan Kempner"),[\[203\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-203)[\[204\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-204) who was named ambassador for the brand;[\[205\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-205) Italian model [Marina Schiano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Schiano "Marina Schiano"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) who managed the YSL boutiques in North America; French model Nicole Dorier,[\[206\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-206) who became the director of his runway shows,[\[207\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-207) and later, the "memory" of his house when it became a museum; and French model [Laetitia Casta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetitia_Casta "Laetitia Casta"),[\[208\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-208) who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1998â2001.[\[209\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-209)
## Death
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Saint Laurent died on 1 June 2008 of [brain cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_cancer "Brain cancer") at his residence in Paris.[\[210\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-210) According to *[The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")*, a few days prior, he and Bergé had been joined in a [same-sex civil union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union "Civil union") known as a [Pacte civil de solidarité](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarit%C3%A9 "Pacte civil de solidarité") (PACS) in France.[\[211\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-211) When Saint Laurent was diagnosed as terminal, with only one or two weeks left to live, Bergé and the doctor mutually decided that it would be better for him not to know of his impending death. Bergé said, "I have the belief that Yves would not have been strong enough to accept that."[\[212\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-212)
He was given a [Catholic funeral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_mass "Requiem mass") at [Ăglise Saint-Roch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Roch,_Paris "Saint-Roch, Paris") in Paris.[\[213\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-213) The funeral attendees included the former Empress of Iran [Farah Pahlavi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Pahlavi "Farah Pahlavi"), [Bernadette Chirac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Chirac "Bernadette Chirac"), [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve"), and President [Nicolas Sarkozy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy "Nicolas Sarkozy") and his wife, [Carla Bruni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bruni "Carla Bruni").[\[214\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-214)
His body was [cremated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremated "Cremated"), and his ashes were scattered in [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh"), Morocco, in the [Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden"), a residence and [botanical garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_garden "Botanical garden") that he owned with Bergé and often visited to find inspiration and refuge.[\[215\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-215) Bergé said at the funeral service (in French): "But I also know that I will never forget what I owe you and that one day I will join you under the Moroccan palms."
## Personal life
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Yves Saint Laurent met Pierre Bergé in 1958. After falling in love, they co-founded the Yves Saint Laurent Couture House in 1961. They remained longtime friends and business partners after their amicable breakup in 1976.[\[216\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-216)
In 1970, Saint Laurent befriended pop artist [Andy Warhol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol "Andy Warhol") while the latter was filming *[L'Amour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Amour_\(film\) "L'Amour (film)")* in Paris.[\[139\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:3-139)[\[217\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-217) Saint Laurent had his portrait commissioned in 1972, and Warhol traveled to Paris to photograph him.[\[218\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-218) During a visit to New York in November 1972, Saint Laurent saw the portrait and remarked, "The colors are marvelous â orange, red, green, and pink."[\[219\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-219)[\[220\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-220) In February 1974, Saint Laurent hosted a party for Warhol to celebrate his one-man shows at the [MusĂ©e Galliera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Galliera "Palais Galliera") and the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris.[\[221\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-221)
In 1973, Saint Laurent began a six-month affair with [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld")'s companion [Jacques de Bascher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Bascher "Jacques de Bascher").[\[222\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-222) Bergé ended their liaison in 1974, accusing de Bascher and Lagerfeld of being responsible for Saint Laurent's mental health issues and his increasing interest in hard drugs and [sadomasochism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism "Sadomasochism").[\[223\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-223)
During the 1970s, Saint Laurent was considered one of Paris's "[jet set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_set "Jet set")".[\[224\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-drake3-224) He was often seen at clubs in France and New York City, such as [Club Sept](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sept "Le Sept"), [Regine's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regine%27s "Regine's"), [Studio 54](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_54 "Studio 54"), and [Le Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Palace "Le Palace"), and was known to be both a heavy drinker and a frequent user of [cocaine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine "Cocaine").[\[225\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice5-225)
### Residences
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[Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden") in Marrakesh
Saint Laurent and Bergé made their first trip to [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh") in 1966, which marked the start of a lifelong passion for Moroccan culture.[\[226\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:03-226) Saint Laurent once stated, "Everything was black before Marrakech." "I learned color from this city, and I embraced its light, its bold blends, and its passionate inventions."[\[226\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:03-226) For multiple years to come, Saint Laurent and Bergé would return and purchase various properties. They acquired Dar Es Saada in 1974,[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) Villa Oasis 45 and Majorelle Garden in 1980,[\[228\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-228) and Villa Mabrouka in 1997.[\[229\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-229)
The duplex at 55 Rue de Babylone on the [Left Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Bank_of_the_Rhine "Left Bank of the Rhine") of Paris, which Saint Laurent and Bergé purchased in 1970, was highlighted in the May 1972 issue of [*British Vogue*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Vogue "British Vogue").[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) French architect [Jean-Michel Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Frank "Jean-Michel Frank") designed the apartment's interior in the 1920s in the [Art Deco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco "Art Deco") style.[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) The apartment featured vases by [Jean Dunand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dunand "Jean Dunand"), stools by Pierre Legrain, a red lacquer-framed stool by [Gustave Miklos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Miklos "Gustave Miklos"), an armchair by [Eileen Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gray "Eileen Gray"), and sheep chairs by [Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Lalanne "Les Lalanne").[\[230\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-230)
In 1983, Saint Laurent and Bergé bought a neo-gothic villa, *Chùteau Gabriel* in [Benerville-sur-Mer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benerville-sur-Mer "Benerville-sur-Mer"), near [Deauville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deauville "Deauville"), France.[\[231\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-231) Saint Laurent was a great admirer of [Marcel Proust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust "Marcel Proust") who had been a frequent guest of [Gaston Gallimard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Gallimard "Gaston Gallimard"), one of the previous owners of the villa. When they bought *Chùteau Gabriel*, Saint Laurent and Bergé commissioned [Jacques Grange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Grange "Jacques Grange") to decorate it with themes inspired by Proust's *[Remembrance of Things Past](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Things_Past "Remembrance of Things Past")*.[\[232\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-232)
### Collections
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In February 2009, an auction of 733 items from Saint Laurent and Bergé's collection was held by [Christie's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie%27s "Christie's") at the [Grand Palais](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais "Grand Palais"), ranging from paintings by [Picasso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso "Pablo Picasso") to [ancient Egyptian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt "Ancient Egypt") sculptures. The proceeds went to HIV and [AIDS research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_research "AIDS research").[\[233\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-233)
Before the sale commenced, the Chinese government tried to stop the sale of two of [twelve bronze statue heads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyantang "Haiyantang") taken from the [Old Summer Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace "Old Summer Palace") in China during the [Second Opium War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War "Second Opium War").[\[234\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-234) A French judge dismissed the claim and the sculptures, heads of a rabbit and a rat, sold for âŹ15,745,000. However, the anonymous buyer revealed himself to be Cai Mingchao, a representative of the [PRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC "PRC")'s National Treasures Fund, and claimed that he would not pay for them on "moral and patriotic grounds".[\[235\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-235) The heads remained in BergĂ©'s possession until acquired by [François Pinault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pinault "François Pinault"), owner of a number of luxury brands including Yves Saint Laurent.[\[236\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-236) He then donated them to China in a ceremony on 29 June 2013.[\[237\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-237)
On the first day of the sale, [Henri Matisse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse "Henri Matisse")'s painting *Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose* broke the previous [world record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record "World record") set in 2007 for a Matisse work and sold for 32 million euros. The record-breaking sale realized 342.5 million euros (ÂŁ307 million).[\[238\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-238) The subsequent auction, 17â20 November, included 1,185 items from the couple's Normandy villa. While not as impressive as the first auction, it featured the designer's last [Mercedes-Benz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz "Mercedes-Benz") car and his [HermĂšs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%A8s "HermĂšs") luggage.[\[239\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-239)
## Accolades and legacy
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Rue Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakesh
In 1982, Saint Laurent received the International Fashion Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.[\[240\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-240)
In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art") with a solo exhibition.[\[241\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-241)
In 1985, Saint Laurent was awarded an *Oscar de la mode* for his 'contribution to the history of fashion' at The Oscars of Fashion event in Paris.[\[242\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-242)
In 1999, Saint Laurent received the [Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award") at the [CFDA Fashion Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFDA_Fashion_Awards "CFDA Fashion Awards").[\[243\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-243)
In 2001, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of Commander of the [LĂ©gion d'Honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27Honneur "LĂ©gion d'Honneur") by French President [Jacques Chirac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac "Jacques Chirac").[\[244\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-244)
In 2007, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of [Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_officier_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur "Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur") by French President [Nicolas Sarkozy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy "Nicolas Sarkozy").[\[245\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-245)[\[246\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-246)
In 2004, Saint Laurent created a foundation with Bergé in Paris to trace the history of the house of YSL, complete with 15,000 objects and 5,000 pieces of clothing.[\[247\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-247)
*[Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes "Forbes")* rated Saint Laurent the [top-earning dead celebrity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes%27_list_of_the_world%27s_highest-paid_dead_celebrity "Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrity") in 2009.[\[248\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-248)
In 2010, the street in front of the [Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden") in Marrakesh was renamed the Rue Yves Saint Laurent in his honor.[\[249\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-249)
In 2022, the "Yves Saint Laurent Aux MusĂ©es" exhibition was held simultaneously at six Parisian cultural institutions: the [Centre Pompidou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou "Centre Pompidou"), the [MusĂ©e dâArt Moderne de Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Art_Moderne_de_Paris "MusĂ©e d'Art Moderne de Paris"), the [MusĂ©e du Louvre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre "Louvre"), the [MusĂ©e dâOrsay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay "MusĂ©e d'Orsay"), the [MusĂ©e National PicassoâParis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Picasso "MusĂ©e Picasso"), and the [MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Paris "MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris"), demonstrating the enduring legacy of his work and his lifelong fascination with art.[\[250\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:4-250) This exhibition highlighted his connections to various art forms and his ability to blend fashion with artistic expression.[\[250\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:4-250)
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The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris
### Museums
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The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris, housed in the old Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, opened its doors in 2017.[\[251\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-251) Through a continuously updated collection display, the museum chronicles his career.[\[252\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:04-252) The exhibition space was renovated by stage designer Nathalie CriniÚre and interior designer Jacques Grange.[\[252\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:04-252)
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YSL museum in [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh")
The [Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_Museum_in_Marrakesh "Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh"), also opened in 2017. Pierre Bergé personally chose the thousands of pieces of apparel and haute couture accessories housed in the 43,000-square-foot structure, which was created by the Paris-based studio Studio KO.[\[253\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-253)
Saint Laurent's childhood home in Oran, Algeria, where he lived until the age of 18, was purchased by the Oran entrepreneur Mohamed Affane. He transformed it into a museum, RĂ©sidence Yves Saint Laurent Oran, which opened in 2022.[\[254\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-254) The period furniture was recovered and around 400 sketches by Yves Saint-Laurent are exhibited, along with childhood photos of the designer.[\[255\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-255)[\[256\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-256)
## In popular culture
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*Study of Yves Saint Laurent* by [Reginald Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Gray_\(artist\) "Reginald Gray (artist)"), 1976
### Films
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- 2002: David Teboul's *Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times*[\[257\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-257)
- 2002: *Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris*[\[258\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-258)
- 2009: Tout Terriblement[\[259\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-259)
- 2010: Pierre Thoretton's *[L'Amour fou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Amour_fou_\(2010_film\) "L'Amour fou (2010 film)")*[\[260\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-260)
- 2014: *[Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Yves Saint Laurent (film)")*[\[261\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent_Biopic_Wins_Pierre_Berg%C3%A9's_Approval-261) by [Pierre Niney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Niney "Pierre Niney")
- 2014: *[Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Saint Laurent (film)")*[\[262\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-262) by [Gaspard Ulliel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_Ulliel "Gaspard Ulliel")
- 2019: Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections[\[263\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-263)
### Television
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- 1965: Appeared on 24 October as a "mystery guest" on the American television game show *[What's My Line?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F "What's My Line?")*[\[264\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-10-25-1965_What's_My_Line-264)
- 2024: *[Becoming Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Karl_Lagerfeld "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld")* by [Arnaud Valois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Valois "Arnaud Valois")
### Books
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- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2017). *Dior by YSL*. Photography by Laziz Hamani. Assouline. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-61428-599-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-599-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-599-1")
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[\[265\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-265)
- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2019). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography*. Rizzoli. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-8478-6339-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-6339-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-6339-6")
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- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2020). *Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection*. Assouline. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-61428-942-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-942-5 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-942-5")
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[\[266\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-266)
- Bergé, Pierre (2014). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion*. Illustrated by Lawrence Mynott. Abrams. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-4197-1349-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4197-1349-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-4197-1349-1")
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[\[267\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-267)
- Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography*. HarperCollins. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
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- Napias, Jean-Christophe; MauriĂšs, Patrick (2023). *The World According to Yves Saint Laurent*. Thames\&Hudson. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-500-02618-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-500-02618-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-500-02618-2")
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- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2002). *Debut: Yves Saint Laurent 1962*. Abrams Books. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-8109-0561-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8109-0561-0 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8109-0561-0")
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- Werle, Simone (2010). *50 Fashion Designers You Should Know*. Prestel. pp. 64â68\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-3-7913-4413-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-7913-4413-3 "Special:BookSources/978-3-7913-4413-3")
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- Menkes, Suzy (2019). *Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections, 1962â2002*. Thames\&Hudson. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-300-24365-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-24365-9 "Special:BookSources/978-0-300-24365-9")
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- Reising, Kelly (2025). *The Essence of Yves Saint Laurent: Unfolded*. Helmin\&Sorgenfri. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-87-94190-60-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-87-94190-60-2 "Special:BookSources/978-87-94190-60-2")
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- Baxter-Wright, Emma (2021). *Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House*. Welbeck Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-78739-554-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78739-554-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-78739-554-1")
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## See also
\[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)&action=edit§ion=16 "Edit section: See also")\]
- [Yves Saint Laurent (brand)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)")
## References
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1. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-1)** ["Yves Saint Laurent Dies â Yves Saint Laurent Has Died in Paris Aged 71"](http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=573020) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080603114738/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=573020) 3 June 2008 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine"). *[Agence France-Presse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse "Agence France-Presse")* (*via* *[Nine News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_News "Nine News")*). (2 June 2008.) Retrieved 12 June 2010.
2. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-telegraph_UK_obbit_2-0)**
["Yves Saint Laurent, Who Has Died Aged 71, was, with Coco Chanel, regarded as the Greatest Figure in French Fashion in the 20th Century, and could be said to have Created the Modern Woman's Wardrobe"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080604051842/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2063264/Yves-Saint-Laurent.html). *The Daily Telegraph*. UK. 1 June 2008. Archived from [the original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2063264/Yves-Saint-Laurent.html) on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
3. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-Yslbptr_3-0)** [Yves Saint Laurent's body put to rest](http://www.fashiontelevision.com/infashion/industrynews/industrynews_2116.aspx) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20141029221215/http://www.fashiontelevision.com/infashion/industrynews/industrynews_2116.aspx) 29 October 2014 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") *Fashion Television*.
4. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-Goodreads_4-0)**
["Yves Saint-Laurent"](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/132725.Yves_Saint_Laurent). *Goodreads*. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
5. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-5)**
["Yves Saint Laurent"](http://www.fondation-pb-ysl.net/en/Biographie-Yves-Saint-Laurent-519.html). *Fondation Pierre BergĂ© â Yves Saint Laurent*. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
6. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-6)**
["Yves Saint Laurent"](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/517530/Yves-Saint-Laurent). *EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica*. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
7. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-biobio2_7-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-biobio2_7-1)
["Yves Saint Laurent Biography"](http://www.biography.com/people/yves-saint-laurent-9469669#synopsis). *bio*. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
8. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-Yves_Saint_Laurent2_8-0)**
["Yves Saint Laurent"](https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/yves-saint-laurent). *Biography*. 18 August 2020.
9. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-9)**
["Yves Saint Laurent \| Encyclopedia.com"](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/fashion-biographies/yves-saint-laurent). *www.encyclopedia.com*. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
10. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:02_10-0)**
["Yves Saint Laurent \| Biography, Fashion, & Facts \| Britannica"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yves-Saint-Laurent-French-designer). *www.britannica.com*. 28 May 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
11. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice2_11-0)**
Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City);
[ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
12. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-12)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 208. "...Saint Laurent showed \[Michel de Brunhoff\] some drawings that looked astoundingly like the 'A-Line' collection Christian Dior had just designed..."
13. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-13)**
["Debut at Dior"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/les-debuts-chez-dior). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
14. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-Yves_Saint_Laurent3_14-0)**
["Yves Saint Laurent"](https://www.biography.com/fashion-designer/yves-saint-laurent). *Biography*. 18 August 2020.
15. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-15)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 208. "Raymonde Zehnacker recalls: 'Just after Monsieur Dior showed his last collection, \[Dior\] said, "Raymonde, I'd like to tell the press that thirty-five of those models were completely designed by Yves Saint Laurent."...'"
16. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-16)**
Radieva, Krasimira (2 March 2019). ["An Investigation of the Silhouettes of Christian Dior"](https://www.academia.edu/81000093). *Artte*. **7** (3): 173. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.15547/artte.2019.03.002](https://doi.org/10.15547%2Fartte.2019.03.002) (inactive 11 July 2025). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1314-8796](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1314-8796). Retrieved 23 May 2023. "...Dior based much of his Libre line on two classic items of clothing\[:\]...the vareuse, or fishermen's smock,...and...the khaki bush jacket"
`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_DOI_inactive_as_of_July_2025 "Category:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025"))
17. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice3_17-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice3_17-1)
Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City);
[ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
18. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-18)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 204â205\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Yves Saint Laurent...at the age of 21 found himself perched upon the multi-million franc edifice of the most influential fashion house in the world....\[W\]ith his first collection,...he launched the \[T\]rapeze line....'Saint Laurent has saved France!' said the French headlines. 'The great Dior tradition will continue!'"
19. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-19)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 251. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "For the nation's largest industry, the well-being of its most prominent couture house was of great social and economic importance....Saint Laurent's first collection...was a resounding success."
20. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-20)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1958". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 246, 247. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Saint Laurent's \[T\]rapeze line, backbone of his successful first collection for Dior."
21. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-21)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 254. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's first collection introduced a new silhouette, the wedge-shaped 'Trapeze'..."
22. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-22)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 204. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "...\[W\]ith his first collection,...\[Saint Laurent\] launched the \[T\]rapeze line â not too different from Dior's A line, but just different enough."
23. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-23)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1955". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 239. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Dior produces his new A line, a triangle widened from a small head and shoulders to a full pleated or stiffened hem."
24. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-24)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1955". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 230. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Dior's...'A' line consisted of coats, suits and dresses flared out into wide triangles from narrow shoulders. The waistline was the cross bar of the A and could be positioned either under the bust in an Empire manner or low down on the hips."
25. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-25)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 254. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "The dress sloped down from the shoulders to a widened hem just below the knee, maintaining a definite geometric line through precise tailoring."
26. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-26)**
["The Paris Demise of the No-Shape Chemise"](https://books.google.com/books?id=yVMEAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA79). *Life*. Vol. 45, no. 9. 1 September 1958. p. 79. "The only designer to lower the skirt length was Yves St. Laurent,...who dropped his five inches. And where other designers' clothes looked young and scanty, St. Laurent's were often sedate and bundled up."
27. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-27)**
["Bohan is Hired By Dior as Aide to St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/08/archives/bohan-is-hired-by-dior-as-aide-to-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 23. 8 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Bucking the trend toward kneecap-length skirts, St. Laurent dropped his hems to mid-calf or longer. Some viewers called the move a mistake."
28. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-28)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1958). "Paris Report". *Vogue*. **132** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 211. "'What does he think he is doing?' were the cries...when young Yves Saint Laurent of Dior dropped the skirt hem...\[W\]e do not believe this proportion will impose itself in general..."
29. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-29)**
["What to Look For in Paris Styles"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/05/archives/what-to-look-for-in-paris-styles.html). *The New York Times*: 18. 5 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "...American store buyers are asking \[St. Laurent\] to shorten the hems..."
30. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-30)**
["Bohan is Hired By Dior as Aide to St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/08/archives/bohan-is-hired-by-dior-as-aide-to-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 23. 8 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Marc Bohan...has been hired by the House of Christian Dior to help Yves St. Laurent turn out Dior fashions for New York and South America..."
31. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-31)**
Donovan, Carrie (30 January 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Has the Feeling of the Thirties"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/01/30/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-has-the-feeling-of-the-thirties.html). *The New York Times*: 18. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "The spring collection, the third designed by young Yves St. Laurent, is full of the feeling of the Thirties....St. Laurent...now shows the same length that is shown all over Paris â an inch or two below the knee."
32. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-32)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1959). "Vogue's Eye View of Paris with a Difference". *Vogue*. **133** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 97. "Dior's...classic suit in what might now be called the Yves League manner..."
33. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-33)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1959). "Vogue's Eye View of Paris with a Difference". *Vogue*. **133** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 97. "At Dior,...a series of...middy dresses..."
34. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-34)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "A year later \[1959\], he made the common middy-blouse high fashion."
35. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-35)**
Hall, Harriet (16 December 2016). ["Celebrating 70 years of Christian Dior: From the New Look to feminist slogans"](https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/christian-dior-70-years-saint-laurent-galliano-raf-simons-maria-grazia-chiuri-new-look-fashion-style-history/121806). *Stylist*. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
36. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-36)**
Weller, Sheila (2015). [*The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour -- and the (ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aXbZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72). Penguin Books. p. 72. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-312777-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-312777-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-312777-2")
.
37. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-37)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "...\[H\]is biggest news was a skirt that gathered at the waist and bloused slightly over the top of a six-inch band at the hem, giving the impression of a puffed tunic."
38. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-38)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 208, 218â219\. "The Dior look,...the surprise skirt, a slender pouf rounding over a straight short skirt. Early Paris cables called this the hobble skirt, a perplexment easily dispelled by pictures....Dior pouf-skirted suit,...the skirt bloused over a skinny hem....St. Laurent makes skirt news: blousing at the knee, caught into a narrow hem."
39. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-39)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (1 September 1955). "Paris: The Rise of an Alluring New Look". *Vogue*. **126** (3). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 202. "Harem skirt â part of Dior's new Oriental feeling. This with narrow hem-band. \[Dress with harem skirt that flares out from fitted bodice and then is drawn in at the knee with bloused fullness billowing above a 'hem band' that extends to mid-calf.\]"
40. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-40)**
Wells, Dee (21 January 1957). ["Spring Fashion Trends from Abroad, Rome: Chiffon Dominates Three of Five Collections"](https://www.nytimes.com/1957/01/21/archives/spring-fashion-trends-from-abroad-rome-chiffon-dominates-three-of.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: F40. "Simonetta's...\[e\]vening dresses..., all ankle length, were charmingly pre-1920. One was so shamelessly sentimental as to be both hobble-skirted and in pale pink satin....Suits and jackets have hem-tightened skirts...The wine-glass skirt...is a graceful adaptation of the harem skirt."
41. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-41)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (15 March 1958). "Fashion in Italy". *Vogue*. **131** (6). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 67. "Another wafting shape, by Simonetta, in a miracle of silk and wool chiffon that...hangs with new assurance. \[A full, waistless sack/harem dress drawn into a constricting, bow-marked band at the knee-length hem, the fullness of the dress blousing over the knee-band.\]"
42. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-42)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (1 April 1958). "Shopping Guide to the New Shapes". *Vogue*. **131** (7). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 72â73\. "High waist; balloon skirt...Black silk crĂȘpe, ballooned out lightly between a high waist, close hemline....at Traina-Norell..."
43. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-43)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 210. "Day skirt-length news in Paris: Dior made the shortest, just grazing the kneecap and sometimes not quite."
44. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-44)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "Yves St. Laurent was busy taking up hems â a move that some approved, although many disapproved â while everyone else was letting them down. Sometimes, he exposed at least the front of a shapely knee."
45. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-45)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959: The Fashion-conscious Fifties". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 205. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[0-14-00-4955-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-00-4955-X "Special:BookSources/0-14-00-4955-X")
. "...Saint Laurent dropped the hem by three \[inches\] for his \[second\] collection. Twelve months later \[fall 1959\] he bared the knees, and caused an uproar....Radio programmes ran discussions on the likelihood of bare knees in Britain, and one newspaper headline said, 'Dior's man can do what he likes. We won't show our knees!'"
46. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-46)**
Donovan, Carrie (26 August 1959). ["French Styles en Route: Dior Skirt Splits Critics"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/26/archives/french-styles-en-route-dior-skirt-splits-critics.html). *The New York Times*: 32. Retrieved 30 June 2023. "...Yves Saint Laurent\['s\]...newly cut skirt...seemed to constrict the knees and then balloon above them. The skirt obviously was based on the hobble skirts of yore....The majority of the daily newspaper reporters immediately labeled it 'hobble'..."
47. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-47)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "...\[T\]he models hobbled and minced...They looked as if they might have been sped from the hand of Paul Poiret..."
48. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-48)**
["Christian Dior Cuts Skirt Length in Move Disrupting Couture World"](https://www.nytimes.com/1948/02/10/archives/christian-dior-cuts-skirt-length-in-move-disrupting-couture-world.html). *The New York Times*: 28. 10 February 1948. "...\[Dior\] suits have hobble skirts..."
49. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-49)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (15 April 1958). "Listening-Post at the Italian Collections". *Vogue*. **133** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 80â81\. "...De Barentzen...showed...collars eye-high...with...two little pockets..."
50. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-50)**
Daves, Jessica (15 September 1959). "Paris Copies Here and Now". *Vogue*. **139** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 125. "...lace to the eyelashes."
51. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-51)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "A dramatic accessory note consisted of glistening four-inch-high chokers..."
52. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-52)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 213. "Dior's...dress cut like an East Indian rajah coat..."
53. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-53)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "Even coiffures were decorated with giant pins. These wre worn on top of foot-high chignons..."
54. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-54)**
["Paris: Evening Clothes are Star Attractions Among New Fashions for Fall"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/09/02/archives/paris-evening-clothes-are-star-attractions-among-new-fashions-for.html?searchResultPosition=3). *The New York Times*: 33. 2 September 1959. "Yves St. Laurent of Dior pouffed a short skirt in three bouncy tiers. In the red and black plaid taffeta he used for a number of young styles."
55. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-55)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1960). "Paris Report". *Vogue*. **135** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 111, 112. "Dior's polo shirt suits point to a fresh fling for the middy look...Dior's young smock...that falls loosely over a short narrow skirt."
56. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-56)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1960). "Paris: Surprises, Controversies, Allure in the New Collections". *Vogue*. **136** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 221, 223. "The basic line that Yves St. Laurent presents is a long, long torso with no hint of waistline, ending at various points below the hips in little balloon skirts â the balloon skirt revived and changed in character by its use on the unfitted torso....\[223\] The long-legged Dior girls with knees showing below the barrel of balloon skirts â skirts looking even shorter because of the long, long torso overblouses....\[T\]his silhouette couples a long, reedy torso with a billowed skirt, often startlingly short."
57. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-57)**
["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/28/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-designer-creates-a-rather-severe-a.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 31. 28 July 1960. "Dior has abandoned the waist, elongated the torso and shifted the emphasis of the silhouette to well below the hips in a most provocative collection...The proportion is simply this: two parts for the torso and one part for the skirt, which can be a slight dirndl or a supple, melon-like puff that exposes the kneecap when the model walks....His miniature skirts were nearly always attached to tubular, sleeveless tops."
58. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-58)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1960). "Paris: Surprises, Controversies, Allure in the New Collections". *Vogue*. **136** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 226. "Called 'CafĂ© de Flore,' after the famous student and intellectual hangout â a dress and jacket with a young, offhand charm. Grey wool flannel, slightly ballooned skirt; set-in turtle neck and watch cap of knitted wool."
59. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-59)**
["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/28/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-designer-creates-a-rather-severe-a.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 31. 28 July 1960. "...wide-legged hostess pants that could easily be mistaken for huge skirts....a fabulous white mink pullover and floppy, black velvet pants."
60. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-60)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1960". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 262â263\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's decision to interpret...youthful street fashion in expensive materials caused a furore at Dior...His Left Bank 'Beat Look' included black leather suits and coats, knitted caps, high turtleneck collars, and biker-style jackets in mink and crocodile skin....Saint Laurent had failed to court the buyers and press by gently evolving a line collection by collection."
61. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-61)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1960". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 272. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "The beat look is the news at Dior...pale zombie faces; leather suits and coats; knitted caps and high turtleneck collars, black endlessly....Saint Laurent's...'beat' collection is the most unpopular look in Paris, and his last for Dior."
62. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-62)**
["5 Must-Know Tales About The Late Yves Saint Laurent"](https://en.vogue.me/fashion/5-things-to-know-about-yves-saint-laurent/). *Vogue Arabia*. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
63. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-63)**
["Marc Bohan Appointed Dior's New Designer"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/29/archives/marc-bohan-appointed-diors-new-designer.html). *The New York Times*: 38. 29 September 1960. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "The fashion house of Christian Dior...has bestowed the ultimate glory on...Marc Bohan. It has been announced that Bohan will replace...Yves Saint Laurent as chief designer."
64. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-64)** [The Biography Channel â Yves Saint Laurent Biography](http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/931:1087/1/Yves_Saint_Laurent.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090806090342/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/931:1087/1/Yves_Saint_Laurent.htm) 6 August 2009 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine")
65. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-65)**
Torpy, Bill. ["Metro Atlanta Business News"](http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/06/02/stlaurent_0603.html). ajc.com. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
66. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-66)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 268â269\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "He received financial backing from a variety of sources, including a businessman from Georgia and the cosmetics company Charles of the Ritz..."
67. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-67)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 268. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "...Saint Laurent...was joined by many of the staff from Dior when he opened his own house."
68. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-68)**
Molli, Jeanne (24 October 1962). ["Dior to Sue Yves St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/10/24/archives/dior-to-sue-yves-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 42. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "Approximately 25 \[Dior\] employees...have gone to work for St. Laurent."
69. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-69)**
["Better Living: The Best Suits Since Chanel"](https://books.google.com/books?id=kE0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA91). *Life*. Vol. 52, no. 9. 2 March 1962. p. 91. Retrieved 5 February 2025. "Yves St. Laurent turned out to be the best suitmaker since Chanel. Mostly of tweed in off-beat color combinations, his suits had a crisp, young style...St. Laurent quickly sold out his first batch of suits to store buyers..."
70. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-70)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 269. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "...Saint Laurent...launched the brassiĂšre dress, an early example of the cut-out theme."
71. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-71)**
Lambert, Eleanor. "Fashion and Dress". *1963 Britannica Book of the Year: Events of 1962*. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 365. "An outstanding success was scored by Yves St. Laurent...St. Laurent's long, middy-like tunic, pear-shaped draped skirts and circus-pony headdresses on high coiffures were seen as fashion prophecies for 1963."
72. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-72)**
Peterson, Patricia (30 January 1962). ["Yves St. Laurent in Debut on His Own"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/30/archives/yves-st-laurent-in-debut-on-his-own.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: F33. Retrieved 29 August 2024. "...St. Laurent, although he produced a very good collection, did not say anything new."
73. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-73)**
Donovan, Carrie (12 August 1962). ["Paris Hit"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/12/archives/paris-hit.html). *The New York Times*: 50. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "Called a prodigy...in 1957...\[h\]is success was not repeated until now....His first collection was less than a smash but his second...has lifted him to the pinnacle of Paris couture."
74. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-74)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1962). "Paris? The Answer: Yes". *Vogue*. **140** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 160. "St. Laurent's second collection for his own house was a glittering tour de force, greeted with the special kind of emotional fervour reserved for such occasions."
75. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-75)**
Donovan, Carrie (1 August 1962). ["Praise Given to Givenchy Rivals St. Laurent Acclaim"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/01/archives/praise-given-to-givenchy-rivals-st-laurent-acclaim.html). *The New York Times*: 35. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "...\[B\]uyers are...acclaiming the Givenchy and St. Laurent showings as the great collections of the season..."
76. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-76)**
["First Color Views of '62 Paris Styles"](https://books.google.com/books?id=Fk4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA80). *Life*. Vol. 53, no. 9. 31 August 1962. p. 77. "...Yves Saint Laurent's second collection...established him firmly on a par with the Paris masters..."
77. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-77)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 276. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "...his black ciré satins with ruffs of black mink, his rajah coats and tubular dresses worn with turbans and dark stockings, his long pulled-down tops and barrel skirts, all worn with rich dark jewellery."
78. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-78)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1962). "Paris? The Answer: Yes". *Vogue*. **140** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 160. "Saint Laurent's...pullover tunics somewhat like a fisherman's overblouse...one in pale-grey satin, the most elegant fisherman's smock in the world, with sleeves gathered to a wide yoke..."
79. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-79)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "For the winter of 1962, in his second collection at his own house, he taught the fashion world that smocks and pea jackets could be the height of chic."
80. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-80)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 277. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "The Left Bank look makes good now that Saint Laurent finds his independent fashion identity..."
81. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-81)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 276. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "His autumn \[1962\] collection brings the Left Bank into the couture with total success."
82. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-82)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1963". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 277. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's 1960 beat look was belatedly adapted: Samuel Robery showed simple leather shifts, Scaasi presented black alligator trousers, Ellen Brooke used black lacquered alligator for windbreaker jackets, and mock alligator was chosen by Modelia for polo coats and by David Kidd for short coats."
83. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-83)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 271. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "The most important coat to come out of the couture this year \[1962\] was Saint Laurent's 'pea jacket.' Modelled on the sailor's traditional double-breasted garment and already an American classic, it now gained lasting international popularity."
84. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-84)**
["Paris Fashion Copies"](https://books.google.com/books?id=bU4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA131). *Life*. Vol. 52, no. 14. 6 April 1962. p. 131. "Most Paris originals are first seen at high prices, gradually filter down to low. St. Laurent's famous pea jacket is an exception. He copied it from the humble sailor's coat..."
85. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-85)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1963". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 280. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "From Paris,...Saint Laurent's painter shirt and peasant's smock..."
86. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-86)**
Cassini, Oleg. "Fashion". *Collier's 1964 Year Book Covering the Year 1963*. The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. p. 281. "By day the country look for the city was typified by St. Lauret's tweed smock worn de rigueur with heavy, textured stockings and walking shoes."
87. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-87)**
Peterson, Patricia (30 July 1963). ["St. Laurent and Chanel Designs New but Familiar"](https://www.nytimes.com/1963/07/30/archives/st-laurent-and-chanel-designs-new-but-familiar.html). *The New York Times*: 16. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "...\[B\]oots by Roger Vivier wrapped the leg to mid-thigh."
88. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-88)**
Peake, Andy (2018). "Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir". *Made for Walking*. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Fashion Press. p. 57. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7643-5499-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1")
. "Yves Saint Laurent's fall...1963...visored caps, black leather jerkins, and Roger Vivier's towering cuissardes \[thigh-high boots\] in black crocodile...gave what \[the *Daily Mail*'s Iris\] Ashley called 'a real space girl effect...'"
89. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-89)**
["First Tuxedo"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/premier-smoking). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "In his Autumn-Winter 1966 collection, Yves Saint Laurent introduced his most iconic piece: the tuxedo....\[T\]he Saint Laurent Rive Gauche version was a success. The label's younger clientele was quick to purchase it, making the tuxedo a classic. Saint Laurent would go on to include it in each of his collections until 2002."
90. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-nytimes.com2_90-0)**
[Emerson, Gloria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson "Gloria Emerson") (5 August 1966). ["A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"](https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/05/archives/a-nude-dress-that-isnt-saint-laurent-in-a-new-mad-mood.html). *The New York Times*: R53. Retrieved 23 July 2023. "Niki de Saint-Phalle, an American artist living in \[France\], has had the best influence of all on Saint Laurent...Miss Saint-Phalle...always wears trouser suits with...boots....Now Saint Laurent has copied her 'black tie' trouser suit in velvet and in wool....In wool, it has a very ruffly white shirt, a big black bow at the neck, a wide cummerbund of satin, and satin stripes down the rather wide pants. It is worn with...satin boots."
91. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-91)**
Emerson, Gloria (26 July 1967). ["Paris Couturiers Hedge All Bets"](https://www.nytimes.com/1967/07/26/archives/paris-couturiers-hedge-all-bets.html?searchResultPosition=6). *The New York Times*: 26. "The newest Vivier shoe â some will be seen...in Yves Saint Laurent's collection â is called 'le socle.' It only means a thick platform sole. Socle is the French word for pedestal....Even when he designs a boot that covers the leg...there is often the platform sole..."
92. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-92)**
["First Safari Jacket"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/premiere-saharienne-pe). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Yves Saint Laurent first introduced the safari jacket in his 1967 runway shows. However, it was a one-off design created for a photo-essay for *Vogue* (Paris) the following year that made the design famous and quickly turned it into a classic."
93. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-93)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1957-1967". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 243. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent frequently visited London during the sixties to find inspiration in the boutiques on King's Road."
94. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-94)**
Bender, Marylin (9 December 1969). ["The Fashion Decade: As Hems Rose, Barriers Fell"](https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/09/archives/the-fashion-decade-as-hems-rose-barriers-fell.html). *The New York Times*: 63. "It was a decade in which the...rich stole their fads from hippies who rejected materialism."
95. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-95)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (15 November 1968). "Vogue's Own Boutique". *Vogue*. **152** (9). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 193. "Yves...wandered into Central Park during a New York visit, remained, bemused, enchanted by the hippie scene. Who knows how this may affect the world's fashion scene."
96. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-96)**
Bender, Marylin (1 February 1968). ["A Little Newcomer Joins Cardin's His'n'Her Fashion Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/01/archives/shop-talk-a-little-newcomer-joins-cardins-his-n-her-fashion-line.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 32. "...Yves Saint Laurent has endorsed...the hippie mood..."
97. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-97)**
Giraud, Françoise (12 September 1965). ["After CourrÚges, What Future for the Haute Couture?"](https://www.nytimes.com/1965/09/12/archives/after-courreges-what-future-for-the-haute-couture-after-courreges.html?searchResultPosition=13). *The New York Times*: SM50. "...\[I\]t was Yves St. Laurent who had the courage to say, 'We all needed CourrÚges...He woke us up.'"
98. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-98)**
[Emerson, Gloria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson "Gloria Emerson") (5 August 1966). ["A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"](https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/05/archives/a-nude-dress-that-isnt-saint-laurent-in-a-new-mad-mood.html). *The New York Times*: R53. Retrieved 23 July 2023. "...\[T\]here are moments...when Yves Saint Laurent...strains too hard to convince the world how much he is hand-to-hand and eye-to-eye with the very young....\[T\]he pop art dresses in Saint Laurent's new fall collection...should have been...saved as a private joke for a few friends...Saint Laurent may have just discovered Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, but others did quite long ago."
99. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-drake2_99-0)** [Drake, Alicia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Drake "Alicia Drake"). *The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris*. Little, Brown and Company, 2006. p.49.
100. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-1) [***c***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-2)
Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City);
[ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
101. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-101)**
["Yves Saint-Laurent"](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756721/). *IMDb*. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
102. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-102)**
Emerson, Gloria (27 May 1967). ["Saint Laurent's Latest Creation: A Sadistic Little Lulu"](https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/27/archives/st-laurents-latest-creation-a-sadistic-little-lulu.html?searchResultPosition=4). *The New York Times*: FS18. "...his first book, "La Vilaine Lulu"...published by Claude Tchou in Paris...Saint Laurent's sketches and text show the adventures of Nasty Lulu, who...has a horrid vocabulary\[,\]...whose confidant is an English-speaking white rat\[,\]...\[who\] drinks in the morning, sets fire to houses when people are inside them, and seems to loathe mothers....Lulu is a sadist....He began doodling Lulu...\[i\]n 1956..."
103. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-103)**
["1956: La Vilaine Lulu"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/la-vilaine-lulu). *MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. "...\[I\]n 1967, the writer Françoise Sagan encouraged Saint Laurent to publish Lulu's adventures with the Ăditions Tchou. This album has been republished three times."
104. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-104)**
["Decoding the Styles of the 70's"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/30/archives/fashion-view-decoding-the-styles-of-the-70s.html). *The New York Times*: SM6. 30 December 1979. Retrieved 10 December 2021. "Take the antiâestablishment 60's...: the untamed manes of the flower children, the faded jeans of the affluenceârejecting hippies, the discarded bras of the women's liberation movement, the kneeâfreeing skirts..., and the streetâimitating gear of the radical chic...share...an antifashion attitude that became...powerful and pervasive..."
105. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-105)**
Liber, Nadine (8 October 1971). ["Yves St. Laurent, New King of Off-the-Rack Fashion"](https://books.google.com/books?id=C0AEAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+laurent&pg=PA93). *Life*. Vol. 71, no. 15. p. 93. "Five years ago \[1966\], St. Laurent went through what he describes as 'a horrible crisis'...He saw the young generation shaking off old taboos in clothes, in outlook, in behavior, creating a new environment. He desperately wanted to be part of it...'I began to realize that fashion can come from anywhere,' he says. 'Daily life is where a clothes designer belongs today'."
106. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-106)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (1 July 1969). "Yves's Other Eden: Saint Laurent in Marrakech". *Vogue*. **154** (1). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 149. "...Yves Saint Laurent is probably the activist of the French couture â he understands how young people feel, knows how they want to look."
107. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-107)**
Morris, Bernadine (2 August 1975). ["The Paris Couture: Serenely Relevant Most of the Time"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/02/archives/the-paris-couture-serenely-relevant-most-of-the-time.html?searchResultPosition=9). *The New York Times*: 38. "Yves Saint Laurent was the first of the couturiers to grasp the change in the attitudes of women...to clothes. First, he picked up inspiration from what people wore on the street, not eschewing denim, poplin and patchwork leather."
108. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-108)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "He owes his success, the full flowering of his talent, to the street and he knows it. Saint Laurent came to power in fashion during the 'sixties, when the class-compartmentalized and ethnic dialects of dress had begun to merge feverishly....\[E\]verybody's clothes...were...claiming values, politics...Saint Laurent's eclectic, empirical desire to transform the street's own ideas into something similar, better, touched by genius proved the triumphant form of modernism."
109. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:0_109-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:0_109-1)
Morris, Bernadine (16 September 1968). ["Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue â Rive Gauche"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/16/archives/saint-laurent-has-a-new-name-for-madison-ave-rive-gauche.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 23 April 2023. "During the student upheavals in Paris in May \[1968\], \[Saint Laurent\] saw the girls and boys behind the barricades dressed...in pants...'They looked beautiful...,' he said...'Fashion is not only couture....Events are more important.'...\[In\] his last Paris couture collection, shown in July,...\[p\]ants outfits overshadowed more conventional attire."
110. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-110)**
Morris, Bernadine (15 August 1976). ["Fashion: Paris Report"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/15/archives/fashion-paris-report-peasant-luxe.html). *The New York Times*. p. 179. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "In the late 1960's, \[Saint Laurent\] watched the student riots in Paris and came up with the pants suit, which everyone is still wearing."
111. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-111)**
Heathcote, Phyllis W. (1970). "Fashion and Dress". *Britannica Book of the Year 1970: Events of 1969*. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 341. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-85229-144-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85229-144-3 "Special:BookSources/978-0-85229-144-3")
. "Leading Paris couturier Yves St. Laurent, from whose influence the vogue for trousers could be said to have stemmed, continued to promote them in his spring and fall \[1969\] collections."
112. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-112)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 October 1968). ["Even the Restaurateurs Concede That Pants are Fashionable"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/10/07/archives/even-the-restaurateurs-concede-that-pants-are-fashionable.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 13 July 2023. "Pants...have the endorsement of...Yves Saint Laurent, who devoted a good part of his last Paris collection to them and now is selling them like blue jeans...The wider cut to the legs has won many adherents."
113. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-113)**
Morris, Bernadine (10 March 1970). ["Saint Laurent's American Sportswear"](https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/10/archives/saint-laurents-american-sportswear.html?searchResultPosition=7). *The New York Times*: 46. "Saint Laurent...helped put women all over the world in pants."
114. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-114)**
Peterson, Patricia (7 August 1964). ["This is the Look from the French Couture for Fall, '64"](https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/07/this-is-the-look-from-the-french-couture-for-fall-64.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 32. "Paris has finally approved of the pants suit, first started by Andre CourrĂšges in his spring collection...."
115. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-115)**
Morris, Bernadine (16 September 1968). ["Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue â Rive Gauche"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/16/archives/saint-laurent-has-a-new-name-for-madison-ave-rive-gauche.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 23 April 2023. "...\[Yves Saint Laurent\] mused on the changes in fashion since he went to work for Christian Dior...'That was the time when everybody wanted to look very rich,' he said. 'Now \[1968\] I think it is the contrary....'"
116. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-116)**
Morris, Bernadine (6 February 1971). ["The Romans Didn't Waste Any Time About Shorts"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/06/archives/the-romans-didnt-waste-any-time-about-shorts.html). *The New York Times*: 18. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Until 10 years ago \[1961\], street clothes were very formal. Now that's all changed."
117. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-117)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (1 July 1969). "Yves's Other Eden: Saint Laurent in Marrakech". *Vogue*. **154** (1). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 149. "Now, Yves has designed his first, small collection of ready-to-wear clothes for men..."
118. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:2_118-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:2_118-1)
Graham, Rubye (22 September 1968). ["Headwaiters bar Yves and his pants"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-headwaiters-ba/181864387/). *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. p. 10. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
119. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-119)**
Bumpus, Jessica (26 May 2010). ["YSL the Model"](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nude-yves-saint-laurent-photograph-to-be-auctioned). *British Vogue*. Retrieved 15 August 2025. "A photograph of a nude Yves Saint Laurent...was used for the first YSL eau de toilette for men, Pour Homme, advertising campaign in 1971."
120. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-120)**
["Paris Report: Last Winter's Wardrobe Need Not Go to Thrift Shop â Yet"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/24/archives/paris-report-last-winters-wardrobe-need-not-go-to-thrift-shop-yet.html?searchResultPosition=11). *The New York Times*: 34. 24 April 1971. Retrieved 24 August 2024. "The presence of one designer â Yves Saint Laurent â overshadows the collections."
121. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-121)**
["Yves Saint Laurent: He's Still Flirting with the Midi Length"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/23/archives/yves-saint-laurent-hes-still-flirting-with-the-midi-length.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 47. 23 April 1971. Retrieved 24 August 2024. "...\[H\]is work...has been reflected in almost every showing of readyâtoâwear designers...\[O\]ther designers have been borrowing liberally from him."
122. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-122)**
Morris, Bernadine (26 July 1974). ["Courreges's Fun Belies Uncertainty of Couture"](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/26/archives/courregess-fun-belies-uncertainty-of-couture-blouses-for-250.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 38. "...\[W\]hen Saint Laurent gets behind a style, the world generally follows."
123. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-123)**
[Hyde, Nina S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (21 September 1978). ["Saint Laurent: On the Scent of a New 'Seduction'"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/09/21/saint-laurent-on-the-scent-of-a-new-seduction/8a19f270-4c0b-4dbd-ab8d-2182863ed7f8/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 18 March 2022. "He is the most influential fashion designer in the world..."
124. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-124)**
Burgess, Anthony (11 September 1977). ["All About Yves"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/11/archives/fashion-all-about-yves-fashion-yves.html?searchResultPosition=11). *The New York Times*: 237. "...Yves Saint Laurent...is now universally acknowledged *roi de la mode* \[king of fashion\]."
125. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-125)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 123. "...Yves Saint Laurent always knows exactly what we want at exactly the right time..."
126. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-126)**
Morris, Bernadine (29 January 1976). ["Saint Laurent: The Theme is Mannish"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/29/archives/saint-laurent-the-theme-is-mannish.html?searchResultPosition=2). *The New York Times*: 52. "...Yves Saint Laurent...simply tunes into the mood of the times and reflects it in uncomplicated clothes."
127. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-127)**
Morris, Bernadine (10 April 1975). ["Saint Laurent: A Classic Mood, A Comfortable Look"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/10/archives/saint-laurenta-classic-mood-a-comfortable-look.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 45. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "Yves Saint Laurent\['s\]...clothes...are nice, clean, casual clothes to keep a woman looking calm and controlled as she moves through the anxieties of modern living."
128. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-128)**
Morris, Bernadine (12 April 1978). ["Saint Laurent: The Clothes are the Message"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/12/archives/saint-laurent-the-clothes-are-the-message.html). *The New York Times*. p. C14. Retrieved 1 December 2021. "The reason why he is the most copied designer in the world is because he looks at the way people live and the way they dress and then tries to make them look a little better."
129. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-129)**
Morris, Bernadine (9 May 1975). ["Fashion Talk"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/09/archives/fashion-talk-nothing-to-get-alarmed-about-on-seventh-ave.html). *The New York Times*: 41. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "...\[I\]t has been interesting to notice Karl Lagerfeld replacing Yves Saint Laurent as the favorite mentor of some American designers."
130. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-130)**
Morris, Bernadine (28 October 1977). ["Exuberance Ruled French Fashion Week"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/28/archives/exuberance-ruled-french-fashion-week.html). *The New York Times*: A18. Retrieved 27 March 2022. "The mostâapplauded collections...were those of the giants, Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe and Yves Saint Laurent."
131. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-131)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1968-1975". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 299. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "An American survey in 1975...reported that \[Jean\] Muir and Saint Laurent were the most widely copied designers in the world."
132. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-132)**
Embree, Alice (2021). "Raising Our Voices: 1973-1979". *Voice Lessons*. Austin, TX, USA: Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. p. 174. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-9997318-6-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9997318-6-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-9997318-6-4")
. "In 1970, the women's movement began to take dress down an increasingly informal path. T-shirts, blue jeans, cutoffs, hiking boots, hair flowing freely...Women disposed of bras and freed their breasts under T-shirts or blue work shirts....Relaxed informality settled into the mainstream. In the '70s, political statements moved from buttons to...T-shirts."
133. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-133)**
Morris, Bernadine (1 January 1974). ["As Styles Move into History, A Pattern of Society Emerges"](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/01/archives/as-styles-move-into-history-a-pattern-of-society-emerges.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*. p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "Keeping up with fashion is being put down by busy, productive women who claim (a) they have no time for it, (b) it's a frivolous occupation, and (c) fashion is a conspiracy on the part of designers to persuade feather-headed women to keep pouring out money for clothes they do not really need but are made to feel they want."
134. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-134)**
Peake, Andy (2018). "The New Ease in Fashion". *Made for Walking*. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Fashion Press. p. 113. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7643-5499-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1")
. "...\[I\]n 1974,...Saint Laurent created a Russian-themed collection....Saint Laurent's collection featured full skirts that fell below the knees, thick sweaters, capes, quilted gold jackets, velvet and satin knickerbockers, long fur coats and matching fur hats, and a new, and very distinctive, style of knee-length fashion boot...loose-fitting..."
135. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-135)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 April 1976). ["Saint Laurent Was Hailed and Adored; For Kenzo, Tumult and Frenzy"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/07/archives/saint-laurent-was-hailed-and-adored-for-kenzo-tumult-and-frenzy.html). *The New York Times*. p. 47. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "Next fall's peasants, according to Saint Laurent, will wear boots and babushkas..."
136. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-136)**
Freund, Andreas (8 August 1976). ["The Empire of Saint Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/08/archives/the-empire-of-saint-laurent.html). *The New York Times*. p. 87. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "The noise about Saint Laurent's big silhouette and folkloric look served to enhance his reputation..."
137. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-137)**
Morris, Bernadine (2 January 1977). ["This Year, Fashion Casts Its Vote for Freedom"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/02/archives/this-year-fashion-casts-its-vote-for-freedom.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 48. "...Saint Laurent's peasant look...did not attempt to constrict the body."
138. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-138)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 August 1976). ["Styles Through History: The Roots of the New New Look"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/07/archives/styles-through-history-roots-of-new-new-look.html?searchResultPosition=7). *The New York Times*: 38. "...Yves Saint Laurent's glorified peasant collection...bouffant skirts, small waistlines and...luxury, paradoxically within a peasant silhouette....Though...there are corselet belts at the waistline, nothing is cinched in tightly."
139. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:3_139-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:3_139-1)
Christy, Marian (5 March 1971). ["Paris in Trouble: Fashion Admits to a Defeat"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-paris-in-trouble/181862962/). *Philadelphia Daily News*. p. 20. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
140. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-140)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "Two of his great friends of the 'sixties died last year. Barely thirty, both represented the psychedelic breakaway of the 'sixties; both died tragically proving the breakaway in itself was not an answer."
141. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-141)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "Yves'\[s\] life-style is also in direct opposition to that of a few years back....Gone are the jeans and bare feet. Yves wears carefully pressed gabardine trousers, an immaculate shirt, a beige cashmere cardigan over his shoulders. Gone the long hair and beard."
142. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-142)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1968-1975". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 303. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent was the most successful and influential to combine the art of the couture with the economic realities of the prĂȘt-Ă -porter....By the mid-seventies he had settled into the role of supreme ready-to-wear designer."
143. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-143)**
Liber, Nadine (8 October 1971). ["Yves St. Laurent, New King of Off-the-Rack Fashion"](https://books.google.com/books?id=C0AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA93&dq=yves+laurent&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf9tSlod2LAxUX_8kDHZVGB58Q6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=yves%20laurent&f=false). *Life*. Vol. 71, no. 15. p. 93. "Yves St. Laurent stunned the fashion world this summer with the announcement that he was abandoning the haute couture of Paris....St. Laurent will continue to design clothes for a few private clients."
144. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-144)**
Morris, Bernadine (28 January 1972). ["Couture Alive, Pulse Fading"](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/28/archives/couture-alive-pulse-fading.html?searchResultPosition=4). *The New York Times*: 68. "...Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent... decided to boycott the traditional January couture shows. They agreed to present their collections in April, when the readyâtoâwear houses show their lines."
145. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-145)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "'I feel a new appreciation for the almost lost art of the artisan, the ones who could not exist without the Couture â the artisans must not be lost'."
146. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-146)**
Rose, Barbara (1 October 1978). "The Intimate Yves". *Vogue*. **168** (10). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 404. "'At one point, I was very tempted to design for mass manufacture, to quit the couture, but it was too late. I had too much responsibility to the people who had helped me establish my maison. I couldn't abandon them'."
147. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-147)**
Morris, Bernadine (29 July 1972). ["Cardin, At Least, Said Something New"](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/29/archives/cardin-at-least-said-something-new.html?searchResultPosition=19). *The New York Times*: 16. "Three concerns tried to throw in their lot with ready-toâwear, but Robert Ricci, Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent reneged. When it came couture time, they ran up a few more styles and held couture shows."
148. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-148)**
Russell, Mary (5 March 1978). ["What They're Wearing in Paris, Milan, Tokyo"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/05/archives/what-theyre-wearing-in-paris-milan-tokyo-paris-milan-paris-milan.html?searchResultPosition=12). *The New York Times*: AS11. Retrieved 7 April 2024. "Paris: On the Right Bank, Saint Laurent can be seen in all his glory, worn by women of every age and nationality..."
149. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-149)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1976". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 353, 354. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "This was Saint Laurent's annus mirabilis. In a feast of theatrics and colour he showed his first famous Carmen dresses....Saint Laurent's autumn collection burst forth with romantic fantasy. For the day, he showed a collarless, slightly square jacket with Tyrolean fastenings, either plain or with a subtle stripe, worn over a dirndl skirt and Russian blouse, lying flat on the collarbone and simply tied. A dramatic shawl, Russian-style fur-trimmed hat and a hooded, velvet cape completed the look. Trousers were very narrow, and everything was worn with Cossack-style, baggy boots."
150. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-150)**
["1978 Broadway Suit Collection"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/collection-broadway-suit). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. "'YSL's...mannequin...got ovations every time she sauntered out on the runway in another version of the spencer jacket'."
151. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-151)**
McEvoy, Marion (12 November 1978). ["Where the Pads Come From"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/where-the-pads-come-from.html). *The New York Times*: 240. Retrieved 21 November 2021. "Yves Saint Laurent's manâtailored suit, introduced in January 1978, put emphasis on bigger, built-out shoulders. American designers simultaneously backed the builtâup look and started adding shoulder apparatus of their own."
152. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-glbtq2_152-0)**
Cole, Shaun (2002). ["Saint Laurent, Yves"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070814081121/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/saintlaurent_y.html). *[glbtq.com](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glbtq.com "Glbtq.com")*. Archived from [the original](http://www.glbtq.com/arts/saintlaurent_y.html) on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
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Horyn, Cathy (24 December 2000). ["Yves of Destruction"](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/magazine/yves-of-destruction.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
154. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-154)**
["'Saint Laurent': Another view of the great fashion designer"](https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/saint-laurent-another-view-of-the-great-fashion-designer/). *The Seattle Times*. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
155. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-155)**
Donovan, Carrie (12 November 1978). ["Why the Big Change Now"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/why-the-big-change-now.html). *The New York Times*. p. 226. Retrieved 18 November 2021. "What Saint Laurent sprang on the fashion world last January when he introduced manâtailored suit jackets with shoulders squared out with padding...has now become staple fashion in Italy, France and America."
156. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-156)**
Larkin, Kathy. "Fashion". *1979 Collier's Yearbook Covering the Year 1978*. Crown-Collier Publishing Company. pp. 251â252\. "...Saint Laurent...confirmed huge shoulders, puffed sleeves to emphasize width further..."
157. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-157)**
Morris, Bernadine (30 August 1981). ["The Ultimate Luxury"](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/30/magazine/the-ultimate-luxury.html). *The New York Times*. p. 206. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "Saint Laurent emphasized suits that were squared at the top and tapering to the hem, like a triangle standing on its point."
158. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-158)**
Donovan, Carrie (31 March 1985). ["Fashion: Feminine Flourishes"](https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/31/magazine/fashion-feminine-flourishes.html). *The New York Times*. p. 80. Retrieved 9 March 2022. "Karl Lagerfeld..., Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro and Hubert de Givenchy...continued with their versions of the rather aggressive broad-shouldered silhouette..."
159. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-159)**
Hyde, Nina S. (21 September 1978). ["Saint Laurent: On the Scent of a New 'Seduction'"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/09/21/saint-laurent-on-the-scent-of-a-new-seduction/8a19f270-4c0b-4dbd-ab8d-2182863ed7f8/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 3 December 2021. "His classics,...he says, 'are the modern things and they are for the future. They are now as good as they can be....The basic things have been made. Now we can stop'."
160. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-160)**
Russell, Mary (8 April 1979). ["Fashion/Beauty Fallout from Paris"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/08/archives/fashionbeauty-fallout-from-paris-fashionbeauty.html). *The New York Times*. p. SM19. Retrieved 3 March 2022. "Yves Saint Laurent has retreated into an autocritical contemplation of his years as the established 'No. 1' of Paris fashion. These days, he is creating refined and rethought versions of his legendary look."
161. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-161)**
Donovan, Carrie (6 May 1979). ["American Designers Come of Age"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/06/archives/fashion-view-american-designers-come-of-age-fashion.html). *The New York Times*. p. 254. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "...Saint Laurent may have reached the point where he feels that he has made his basic contribution to fashion and that now, like Chanel who kept on and on with her famous suit â he wants to reinforce his legend."
162. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-162)**
[Hyde, Nina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (6 December 1983). ["YSL"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/06/ysl/0952dbbf-dee8-479e-8019-5da58b852276/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 7 March 2022. "Saint Laurent says the day of big fashion changes is over. What he cares about is refining the classic, the basics, perfecting what he has already put into the fashion vernacular."
163. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-163)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 March 1986). "Bright Spring Fashion Takes a Brave New Direction". *Details*. Vol. IV, no. 8. New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp. p. 90. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "Yves Saint Laurent, the acknowledged king of the status quo in Europe, may have been a revolutionary in his early days...Now, however, St. Laurent has imposed a paralyzing primness...that suggests a retreat to the philistine cathedral of acceptable good taste."
164. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-164)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 March 1988). "Fashionating Rhythm". *Details*. Vol. VI, no. 8. New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp. p. 121. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "The saddest moment of the spring ready-to-wear collections was the hackneyed offering of Yves Saint Laurent. What a pathetic decline for the former king of world fashion, who dominated design for...twenty years. One couldn't believe that the same man was responsible for what was paraded before the buyers and press. The loss of Saint Laurent's legendary color mixing, the rehash of decade-old designs, the afterthought accessories, left the audience confounded. One wanted to believe that Saint Laurent was not involved....\[H\]e appeared to have lost a very rare gift â his creative talent."
165. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-165)**
[Hyde, Nina S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (2 April 1980). ["The Phases of Yves"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/04/02/the-phases-of-yves/afdcf6c6-c175-4fc5-9800-086051ead849/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "When did he first do the Mondrian styles? When was the first smoking jacket? How about the first tiered challis printed baby dress, the first cowboy styles, the first ruffled peasant styles? If you didn't remember exactly, it didn't matter, since the current versions, while new, look familiar enough to be the original versions."
166. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-166)**
[Hyde, Nina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (27 October 1988). ["YSL, At the Ready"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/10/27/ysl-at-the-ready/b56f0c3c-33c8-450e-8982-e71c5b806a9c/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 1 March 2022. "...Saint Laurent revived things from past collections to assure his customers that they can keep on wearing his styles no matter what the year."
167. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-167)**
Finley, Ruth, ed. (1 December 1989). "Paris Designer Focus". *Fashion International*. **XVIII** (3/4). New York, NY, USA: 5. "Yves Saint Laurent shows his signature timeless classics in new and original versions..."
168. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-168)**
Ehrenreich, Barbara and John (2020). "Death of a Yuppie Dream". [*Had I Known*](https://inthesetimes.com/article/death-of-a-yuppie-dream). Twelve. pp. 293â295\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-4555-4367-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4555-4367-0 "Special:BookSources/978-1-4555-4367-0")
. Retrieved 1 May 2022. "In the 1960s,...materialism was briefly out of style."
169. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-169)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 September 1989). "To the Future Through the Past". *Details*. **VIII** (3). New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp.: 214. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "...the excessive riches and embarrassing prices...of the Eighties."
170. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-170)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 March 1987). "The Collections Spring Forward". *Details*. **V** (8). New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp.: 103. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "...\[H\]istorical...revivals...celebrated Proustian opulence for the new rich of the Eighties."
171. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-171)**
Morris, Bernadine (4 August 1981). ["Couture: Styles of Splendor"](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/04/style/couture-styles-of-splendor.html). *The New York Times*: C6. Retrieved 1 December 2021. "There is no attempt to mimic street fashions, which the couture tried during the miniskirt years. There isn't too much concern with practicality. If the bouffant skirts with their layers of petticoats can't fit into a compact car, it is understood that their wearers travel by limousine. If the jeweled dresses require a lady's maid and a bodyguard, it is assumed that they are available....Givenchy calls his dresses Proustian..."
172. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-172)**
Duka, John (28 December 1982). ["Notes on Fashion"](https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/style/notes-on-fashion.html). *The New York Times*: B10. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "The Reagan influence wafted through the major cities like heavy perfume. Where the young had once been the apple of the fashion eye, the elders took over, wearing expensive suits and ball gowns. And youth followed the example. In its way, nothing said more about fashion than all those 15-year-olds in wing collars and black ties swimming like well-bred minnows in the wake of stately taffeta."
173. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-173)**
Cunningham, Bill (1983). "Plus Paris". *Details*. Vol. II, no. 1. New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp. p. 56. "Saint Laurent...knows just how to put the newly rich into a flawless uniform that transcends national and aesthetic taste."
174. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-174)**
Morris, Bernadine (3 August 1982). ["For Every Trend in Paris, There's a Countertrend"](https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/03/style/for-every-trend-in-paris-there-s-a-countertrend.html). *The New York Times*: A16. Retrieved 18 March 2022. "Designers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Hubert de Givenchy simply picked dramatic traditional shapes, made them in the most opulent fabrics and embellished them with furs, feathers and jewels."
175. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-175)**
Donovan, Carrie (11 September 1983). ["Fashion View from Paris Couture"](https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/11/magazine/fashion-view-from-paris-couture-the-influential-two.html). *The New York Times*: 132. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Givenchy's \[clothes\] are always the essence of luxury, even though nowadays they often contain some outfits strikingly similar to those Saint Laurent showed a season before."
176. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-176)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 September 1989). "To the Future Through the Past". *Details*. **VIII** (3). New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp.: 219. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "Both Valentino and de la Renta showed collections in the formal rich society-lady style."
177. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-177)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1983". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 287. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Sharp, daytime tailoring...distinguished the collections of Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Valentino and Ungaro. Suits were styled with wide revers and shoulders above tiny, cinched waists."
178. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-178)**
[Hyde, Nina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (10 May 1982). ["Miniskirts: The Height of Fashion"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/05/10/miniskirts-the-height-of-fashion/6adbec55-b555-449d-9f16-86027a5ccd2e/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "...\[T\]he tight, black leather skirt is a spinoff from Yves Saint Laurent..."
179. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-179)**
[Hyde, Nina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (4 April 1982). ["Fashion Notes"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/04/04/fashion-notes/5ecaeead-41b0-4bbc-9816-8be9bb41ab35/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "\[A\] straight black skirt...that stops above the knee would put you in the camp with Yves Saint Laurent...All the designers like the skirt in leather (YSL did it first at least a year ago)..."
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Weir, June, ed. (1 May 1981). "Vogue's View: Show-Stoppers". *Vogue*. **171** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 221. "Saint Laurent showed \[a gold leather skirt\] first in October \[1980\], for his spring \[1981\] ready-to-wear collection, with a navy tunic....At his recent \[spring 1981\] couture show,...Saint Laurent continued to show his gold leather skirt...Paloma Picasso sat in the front row wearing her YSL gold leather skirt...Loulou de la Falaise...wore her gold leather skirt with a ruffled purple silk blouse."
181. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-181)**
[Hyde, Nina S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (29 April 1980). ["Fashion's Opulent Autumn"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/04/29/fashions-opulent-autumn/551685c3-a952-4ab4-9196-2a8c2ada94c4/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Bill Blass insists that in spite of the state of the economy, his customers want rich, opulent clothes. So he has made his things a little richer, a little more opulent."
182. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-182)**
Morris, Bernadine. "Fashion". *The 1982 World Book Year Book: Events of 1981*. World Book, Inc. p. 309. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7166-0482-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7166-0482-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7166-0482-2")
. "In Paris, the couture or made-to-order part of the fashion industry brought out dazzingly extravagant collections..."
183. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-183)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1976-1986". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 349. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
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## Further reading
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- Bergé, Pierre (1997). *Yves Saint Laurent: The Universe of Fashion*. [Rizzoli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCS_MediaGroup "RCS MediaGroup"). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7893-0067-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7893-0067-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7893-0067-6")
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- Milbank, Caroline Rennolds (1985). *Couture: The Great Fashion Designers*. [Thames & Hudson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_%26_Hudson "Thames & Hudson"). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-941434-51-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-941434-51-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-941434-51-5")
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- Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography*. [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Talese "Nan Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)"). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
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- Petkanas, Christopher (2018). *Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent* (First ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-250-05169-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-250-05169-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-250-05169-1")
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- ["Interactive timeline of couture houses and couturier biographies"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141024061100/http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/explore.php). [Victoria and Albert Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum "Victoria and Albert Museum"). 29 July 2015. Archived from [the original](http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/explore.php) on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
- [Biography of Yves Saint Laurent](https://web.archive.org/web/20040925151538/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/new_site/biography.php?id=931&showgroup=1087)
- [Yves Saint Laurent Biography](https://web.archive.org/web/20130620015352/http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/panthers/yves-saint-laurent-biography.html)
- ["Yves Saint Laurent shuts its doors"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2383729.stm) â BBC World 31 October 2002
- ["All About Yves"](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june02/yves.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130504175857/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june02/yves.html) 4 May 2013 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") â Jim Lehrer 16 January 2002 By Jessica Moore
- ["Yves Saint Laurent announces retirement"](https://web.archive.org/web/20050319183624/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/01/07/ysl.retires/) â CNN 7 January 2002
- ["All About Yves: As the incomparable Yves Saint Laurent celebrates his 40th anniversary as a couturier, the world salutes his genius."](https://web.archive.org/web/20000817203312/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980803/the_arts.fashion.all_abo12.html) â Julie K.L. Dam, *Time* magazine, 3 August 1998.
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| People | [Yves Saint Laurent]() [Pierre Bergé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berg%C3%A9 "Pierre Bergé") (partner) [Betty Catroux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Catroux "Betty Catroux") (muse) [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve") (muse) [Loulou de la Falaise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loulou_de_la_Falaise "Loulou de la Falaise") (muse) |
| Creative directors | [Alber Elbaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alber_Elbaz "Alber Elbaz") (1998â2000) [Tom Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ford "Tom Ford") (2000â2004) [Stefano Pilati](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Pilati "Stefano Pilati") (2004â2012) [Hedi Slimane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedi_Slimane "Hedi Slimane") (2012â2016) [Anthony Vaccarello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Vaccarello "Anthony Vaccarello") (2016âpresent) |
| Corporate | [Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(fashion_house\) "Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)") (fashion house) [Kering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kering "Kering") (parent company) |
| Collections and designs | [Mondrian Collection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrian_Collection "Mondrian Collection") (1965) [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") (1966) |
| Museums | [Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Paris "Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris") [Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden") [Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_Museum_in_Marrakesh "Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh") |
| Films | *[L'Amour fou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Amour_fou_\(2010_film\) "L'Amour fou (2010 film)")* (2010) *[Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Saint Laurent (film)")* (2014) *[Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Yves Saint Laurent (film)")* (2014) |
| [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Grands_couturiers "Template:Grands couturiers") [t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Grands_couturiers "Template talk:Grands couturiers") [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Grands_couturiers "Special:EditPage/Template:Grands couturiers")Members of the [Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_Syndicale_de_la_Haute_Couture "Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture") | |
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| Members | [Adeline André](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_Andr%C3%A9 "Adeline André") [Alexis Mabille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Mabille "Alexis Mabille") [Chanel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel "Chanel") [Christian Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior "Dior") [Franck Sorbier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Sorbier "Franck Sorbier") [Giambattista Valli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_Valli "Giambattista Valli") [Julien Fournié](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Fourni%C3%A9 "Julien Fournié") [Maison Margiela](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Margiela "Maison Margiela") [Schiaparelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Schiaparelli "Maison Schiaparelli") [Stéphane Rolland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Rolland "Stéphane Rolland") |
| See also | [List of grand couturiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grand_couturiers "List of grand couturiers") |
| [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Template:Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award") [t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Template talk:Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award") [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Special:EditPage/Template:Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award")[Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award") at the [CFDA Fashion Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFDA_Fashion_Awards "CFDA Fashion Awards") |
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| 1984: [James Galanos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galanos "James Galanos") 1985: [Katharine Hepburn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn "Katharine Hepburn") 1986: [Bill Blass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Blass "Bill Blass") 1987: [Giorgio Armani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Armani "Giorgio Armani") 1988: [Nancy Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan "Nancy Reagan") 1989: [Oscar de la Renta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_de_la_Renta "Oscar de la Renta") 1990: [Martha Graham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Graham "Martha Graham") 1991: [Ralph Lauren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lauren "Ralph Lauren") 1997: [Geoffrey Beene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Beene "Geoffrey Beene") 1999: [Yves Saint Laurent]() 2000: [Valentino Garavani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_\(fashion_designer\) "Valentino (fashion designer)") 2001: [Calvin Klein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Klein "Calvin Klein") 2002: [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld") 2003: [Anna Wintour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Wintour "Anna Wintour") 2004: [Donna Karan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Karan "Donna Karan") 2005: [Diane von FĂŒrstenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_von_F%C3%BCrstenberg "Diane von FĂŒrstenberg") 2006: [Stan Herman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Herman "Stan Herman") 2007: [Robert Lee Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Morris "Robert Lee Morris") 2008: [Carolina Herrera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Herrera "Carolina Herrera") 2009: [Anna Sui](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Sui "Anna Sui") 2010: [Michael Kors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kors "Michael Kors") 2011: [Marc Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Jacobs "Marc Jacobs") 2012: [Tommy Hilfiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Hilfiger "Tommy Hilfiger") 2013: [Vera Wang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Wang "Vera Wang") 2014: [Tom Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ford "Tom Ford") 2015: [Betsey Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsey_Johnson "Betsey Johnson") 2016: [Norma Kamali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Kamali "Norma Kamali") 2017: [Rick Owens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Owens "Rick Owens") 2018: [Narciso Rodriguez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_Rodriguez "Narciso Rodriguez") 2019: [Bob Mackie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mackie "Bob Mackie") |
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Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
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| Readable Markdown | | Yves Saint Laurent | |
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| [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_Saint-Laurent_at_his_old_studio_of_the_same_name,_1961_\(cropped\).jpg)Saint Laurent in 1961 | |
| Pronunciation | , also [UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English "British English"): , [US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English "American English"): , French: [\[iv sÉÌ lÉÊÉÌ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French") [â](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prononciation_de_Yves_Saint_Laurent.ogg "File:Prononciation de Yves Saint Laurent.ogg") |
| Born | Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent 1 August 1936 [Oran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran "Oran"), [Algeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria "Algeria") |
| Died | 1 June 2008 (aged 71) [Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris "Paris"), [France](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France "France") |
| Resting place | [Jardin Majorelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden"), [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh") [31°38âČ34âłN 8°0âČ11âłWï»ż / ï»ż31\.64278°N 8.00306°W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)¶ms=31_38_34_N_8_0_11_W_) |
| Education | [Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_Syndicale_de_la_Haute_Couture "Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture") |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 1955â1960 ([Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior "Dior")) 1961â2002 ([Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(fashion_house\) "Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)")) |
| Known for | Being the world's youngest [couturier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couturier "Couturier"), founding fashion house [Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(fashion_house\) "Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)") |
| Partner | [Pierre Bergé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berg%C3%A9 "Pierre Bergé") |
| Parents | Charles Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (father) Lucienne Andree Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (mother) |
| Awards | 1982 CFDA International Fashion Award 1985 Oscar de la mode 1999 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Website | [www.ysl.com](http://www.ysl.com/) |
**Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent** (1 August 1936 â 1 June 2008),[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-1) better known as **Yves Saint Laurent** (, , ; French: [\[iv sÉÌ lÉÊÉÌ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French "Help:IPA/French") [â](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prononciation_de_Yves_Saint_Laurent.ogg "File:Prononciation de Yves Saint Laurent.ogg")) or **YSL**, was a French [fashion designer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_design "Fashion design") who, in 1962, founded his [eponymous fashion label](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)"). He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-telegraph_UK_obbit-2)
Saint Laurent's designs often combined elements of comfort and elegance. He is credited with having introduced the "[Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking")" [tuxedo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tie "Black tie") suit for women, and was known for his use of non-European cultural references and diverse models.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yslbptr-3) Fashion historian Caroline Milbank called Saint Laurent "the most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years", adding that he "can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its [1960s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_Western_fashion "1960s in Western fashion") ashes and with finally rendering [ready-to-wear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-to-wear "Ready-to-wear") reputable".[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Goodreads-4) In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art") with a solo exhibition.
Throughout his [couturier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couturier "Couturier") career, Saint Laurent received acknowledgement for his work including the 1982 International Fashion Award from the [Council of Fashion Designers of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Fashion_Designers_of_America "Council of Fashion Designers of America"), and being elevated to the rank of [Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_officier_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur "Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur") in 2007.
## Early life and education
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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born on 1 August 1936, in [Oran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran "Oran"), [Algeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria "Algeria"),[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-5)[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-6) to [French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people "French people") parents (*[Pieds-Noirs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-Noir "Pied-Noir")*) with some Spanish heritage, Charles and Lucienne Andrée Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-biobio2-7) He grew up in a villa by the [Mediterranean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea "Mediterranean Sea") with his two younger sisters, MichÚle and Brigitte.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-biobio2-7) As a child, he liked to create intricate [paper dolls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_dolls "Paper dolls"), and by his early teen years, he was designing dresses for his mother and sisters.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent2-8)
In 1953, Saint Laurent submitted three sketches to a contest for young fashion designers organized by the [International Wool Secretariat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Wool_Secretariat "International Wool Secretariat"). Saint Laurent won first place. Subsequently, he was invited to attend the awards ceremony held in Paris in December.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-9)
During his stay in Paris, Saint Laurent met [Michel de Brunhoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Brunhoff "Michel de Brunhoff"), editor-in-chief of the French edition of *[Vogue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_\(magazine\) "Vogue (magazine)")* magazine and a connection to his father. De Brunhoff was impressed by the sketches that Saint Laurent brought with him and suggested he should become a fashion designer. Saint Laurent enrolled in a course of study at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture,[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:02-10) the council which regulates the [haute couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture "Haute couture") industry and provides training to its employees. Saint Laurent graduated at the top of his class. The same year he graduated, he entered the International Wool Secretariat competition again and won, beating his friend [Fernando SĂĄnchez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_S%C3%A1nchez_\(designer\) "Fernando SĂĄnchez (designer)") and [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice2-11)
Shortly after his win, he brought a number of sketches to de Brunhoff, who recognized close similarities to sketches he had been shown that morning by [Christian Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior").[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-12) Knowing that Dior had created the sketches that morning and that the young man could not have seen them, de Brunhoff sent him to Dior, who hired him on the spot on June 20, 1955.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-13)
"Dior fascinated me," Saint Laurent later recalled. "I couldn't speak in front of him. He taught me the basis of my art. Whatever was to happen next, I never forgot the years I spent at his side." Under Dior's tutelage, Saint Laurent's style continued to mature and gain even more notice.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent3-14)
Although [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior "Dior") recognised his talent immediately, Saint Laurent spent his first year at the House of Dior on mundane tasks, decorating the studio and designing accessories. Eventually he was allowed to submit sketches for the couture collection. With each passing season, more of his sketches were accepted by Dior.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-15) Some Dior collections from this period contain themes that would appear in Saint Laurent's independent work years later, such as the smock tops and safari jackets in Dior's 1957 "Libre" line.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-16)
In August 1957, Dior met with Saint Laurent's mother to tell her that he had chosen Saint Laurent to succeed him as a designer. His mother later said that she had been confused by the remark, as Dior was only 52 years old at the time. She claimed both she and her son were surprised when Dior died at a health spa in northern Italy of a massive heart attack in October 1957.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice3-17)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_St_Laurent_early_gown_deYoung_Museum_San_Francisco.jpg)
Yves Saint Laurent trapeze dress for Dior, 1958
In 1957, at 21 years old, Saint Laurent became the head designer of the House of [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior_S.A. "Christian Dior S.A."). His spring 1958 collection almost certainly saved the enterprise from financial ruin.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-18)[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-19) The simple, flaring lines of his first collection for Dior, called the Trapeze line,[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-20)[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-21) a variation of Dior's 1955 A-Line,[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-22)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-23)[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-24) catapulted him to international stardom. Dresses in the collection featured a narrow shoulder that flared gently to a hem that just covered the knee.[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-25)
In his second collection for Dior, presented for fall 1958, he iconoclastically lowered hemlines by three to five inches[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-26) and was not greeted with the same level of approval that his first collection received, with some attendees and buyers considering it a major misstep.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-27)[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-28)[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-29) Soon after, [Marc Bohan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bohan "Marc Bohan") was hired to assist Saint Laurent,[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-30) and the spring 1959 Dior collection brought lengths back to the knee in a well-received collection inspired by the 1930s,[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-31) noted for its suits[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-32) and sailor collars.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-33)[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-34) Later collections for the House of Dior featuring [hobble skirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobble_skirt "Hobble skirt") (fall 1959) and [beatnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik "Beatnik") fashions (fall 1960) were savaged by the press.[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-35)
In 1959, he was chosen by [Farah Diba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Diba "Farah Diba"), then a student in Paris, to design her wedding dress for her marriage to the [Shah of Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_of_Iran "Shah of Iran").[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-36)
His fall 1959 Dior collection focused on a skirt shape that bloused over a narrow band that hit at mid-knee for daywear and flared below the knee to the floor for evening dresses.[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-37)[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-38) At least one skirt of similar shape had appeared at Dior for fall of 1955, soon after Saint Laurent's arrival,[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-39) and skirts of this form had been shown by [Simonetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Colonna_di_Cesar%C3%B2 "Simonetta Colonna di CesarĂČ") in 1957 and '58[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-40)[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-41) and by Traina-Norell in 1958,[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-42) but Saint Laurent's 1959 versions were criticized for being both too short[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-43)[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-44)[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-45) and too restrictive, "hobble skirts,"[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-46)[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-47) a term that had long been used for [tight-kneed fifties skirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobble_skirt#The_post-hobble_skirt_era "Hobble skirt").[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-48) The silhouette fit trends of the time also conveyed by [Simonetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Colonna_di_Cesar%C3%B2 "Simonetta Colonna di CesarĂČ") and Patrick de Barentzen[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-49) and included some high collars covering part of the face,[\[50\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-50) dark jewels worn high around the throat,[\[51\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-51) India-inspired eveningwear,[\[52\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-52) and jeweled bouffant coiffures.[\[53\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-53) He also showed a few skirts in other silhouettes.[\[54\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-54) His spring 1960 Dior collection did not attract as much attention, as it seemed more sedate and focused on Saint Laurent's expert suits, middy details, and full smocks over narrow skirts.[\[55\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-55)
Saint Laurent's fall 1960 collection for Dior became his most controversial for the house. The dresses this time were a narrow but not fitted column that expanded into a slight pouf skirt below the hips and ended at the top of the knee, scandalously short for the time.[\[56\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-56)[\[57\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-57) The inspiration was the bohemian dress of young intellectuals and artists and outfits were given names that reflected this, a turtleneck outfit named after a trendy café, for instance.[\[58\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-58) Other garments were modeled after bikers' black leather jackets, remade in crocodile and mink, and the showing closed with a group of at-home ensembles consisting of palazzo pants and fur pullovers.[\[59\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-59) The line's unconventional look was considered inappropriate for the mature clientele of the haute couture,[\[60\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-60) and the collection would be his final one for Dior.[\[61\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-61)
In 1960, Saint Laurent was conscripted to serve in the [French Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Army "French Army") during the [Algerian War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War "Algerian War").[\[62\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-62)
Saint Laurent was in the military for 20 days before the stress of [hazing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazing "Hazing") by fellow soldiers led to him being admitted to a military hospital. There he received news that he had been fired from Dior and replaced by [Marc Bohan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bohan "Marc Bohan").[\[63\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-63) This exacerbated his condition, and he was transferred to [Val-de-GrĂące](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-de-Gr%C3%A2ce "Val-de-GrĂące") [military hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_hospital "Military hospital"), where he was given large doses of sedatives and psychoactive drugs and subjected to [electroshock therapy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroshock_therapy "Electroshock therapy").[\[64\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-64) Saint Laurent himself traced the origin of both his mental problems and his drug addictions to this time in hospital.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice3-17)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mondriaanmode_door_Yves_St_Laurent_\(1966\).jpg)
1965 Mondrian dresses
After his release from the hospital in November 1960, Saint Laurent sued Dior for [breach of contract](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_contract "Breach of contract") and won. After a period of convalescence, he and his [partner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_other "Significant other"), industrialist [Pierre Bergé](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berg%C3%A9 "Pierre Bergé"), started their own fashion house, [Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)") or YSL, with funds from American millionaire [J. Mack Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Mack_Robinson "J. Mack Robinson"),[\[65\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-65) cosmetics company [Charles of the Ritz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_of_the_Ritz "Charles of the Ritz"), and others.[\[66\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-66) A number of Dior staff joined him at his new enterprise.[\[67\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-67)[\[68\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-68)
His debut collection, presented for spring 1962, was noted for its suits[\[69\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-69) and included early examples of the cut-outs that would be popular in fashion in a few years,[\[70\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-70) but it received mixed reviews.[\[71\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-71)[\[72\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-72) His second collection, for fall 1962, was celebrated as his best since his 1958 Trapeze collection for Dior.[\[73\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-73)[\[74\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-74) Fashion writers ranked the collection with that of [Givenchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Givenchy "Hubert de Givenchy") as among the best in Paris.[\[75\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-75)[\[76\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-76) It featured India-inspired evening dress, a mostly dark, rich color palette,[\[77\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-77) couture adaptations of traditional pea coats and fishermen's smocks (a theme seen as early as 1957 in his work for [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior")),[\[78\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-78)[\[79\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-79) and a refinement of the bohemian influences seen in his fall 1960 Dior collection, evoking in a number of journalists' minds Paris's [Left Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche "Rive Gauche").[\[80\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-80)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_Saint_Laurent_vintage_knit_dress_deYoung_Museum.jpg)
1965 knitted wedding dress
In the 1960s, Saint Laurent introduced or contributed to [fashion trends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_trend "Fashion trend") such as the [beatnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik "Beatnik") look (1962),[\[81\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-81)[\[82\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-82) pea coats (1962),[\[83\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-83)[\[84\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-84) smock tops (1962-63),[\[85\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-85)[\[86\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-86) [thigh-high boots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thigh-high_boots "Thigh-high boots") (1963, via his chosen shoe designer [Roger Vivier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vivier "Roger Vivier")),[\[87\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-87)[\[88\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-88) the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") women's tuxedo suit (1966),[\[89\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-89)[\[90\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-nytimes.com2-90) [platform shoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_shoe#1960s_and_1970s "Platform shoe") (1967, courtesy of [Roger Vivier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Vivier "Roger Vivier")),[\[91\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-91) and safari jackets for men and women (1967).[\[92\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-92)
Throughout the 1960s, Saint Laurent followed the international youth culture taking shape, a tendency already evident in his fall 1960 Dior collection. Like designers and others of the period, he kept an eye on the pace-setting streets of London[\[93\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-93) and also on the hippie movement emanating from the US.[\[94\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-94)[\[95\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-95)[\[96\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-96) He responded to the spare precision of [André CourrÚges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "André CourrÚges")'s groundbreaking [1964 and '65 Space Age designs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges#1964-65 "André CourrÚges") with the now-famous stark, geometric shift dresses of his 1965 [Mondrian collection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrian_Collection "Mondrian Collection")[\[97\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-97) but faltered a bit with the slightly passé [Pop Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art "Pop Art") dresses in his autumn 1966 line.[\[98\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-98)
He was the first French *couturier* to come out with a full *[prĂȘt-Ă -porter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAt-%C3%A0-porter "PrĂȘt-Ă -porter")* (ready-to-wear) line; although [Alicia Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Drake "Alicia Drake") credits this move with Saint Laurent's wish to democratize fashion;[\[99\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-drake2-99) others\[*[who?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions "Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch")*\] point out that other couture houses were preparing *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* lines at the same time â the House of Yves Saint Laurent merely announced its line first. The purpose of the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line was to provide a wider range of fashionable styles being available to choose from in the market, as they were affordable and cheaper.
The first of the company's Rive Gauche stores, which sold the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line, opened on the rue de Tournon in the [6th arrondissement of Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_arrondissement_of_Paris "6th arrondissement of Paris"), on 26 September 1966. The first customer was [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve").[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100) He designed the costumes for Deneuve in films such as *[Belle de Jour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_\(film\) "Belle de Jour (film)")*, [*Heartbeat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chamade_\(film\) "La Chamade (film)"), and *[Mississippi Mermaid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Mermaid "Mississippi Mermaid")*.[\[101\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-101)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yves_St_Laurent_le_smoking_at_deYoung_Museum_San_Francisco.jpg)
[Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") evening trouser-suits
In 1967, Ăditions Tchou published a book by Saint Laurent, *La Vilaine Lulu* (*The Villain Lulu*), a collection of comic strips featuring a cruelly mischievous little girl named Lulu that the designer had been sketching since 1956, when he had been inspired by a costume worn by one of [Dior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior "Christian Dior")'s colleagues. The child engages in pranks ranging from abusing hospital patients to defiling [AndrĂ© CourrĂšges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "AndrĂ© CourrĂšges")'s pristine white salon with black paint.[\[102\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-102)[\[103\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-103)
The revolutionary societal movements of the time[\[104\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-104) transformed Saint Laurent's thinking and he began to base his work more on what women were actually wearing than on abstract ideas in his head.[\[105\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-105)[\[106\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-106)[\[107\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-107) A number of his designs were inspired by women's lives in the sociopolitical climate of the time,[\[108\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-108) particularly the trousers he showed in 1968 after witnessing the epochal [French uprisings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 "May 68") of that year.[\[109\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:0-109)[\[110\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-110) Saint Laurent is often said to have been the main designer responsible for making women wearing pants more widely acceptable,[\[111\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-111)[\[112\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-112)[\[113\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-113) after [André CourrÚges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Courr%C3%A8ges "André CourrÚges") made the first strides in that direction in 1964.[\[114\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-114)
The social transformations of the late 1960s also influenced how Saint Laurent himself dressed, as he wore more relaxed clothes reflecting the era's youth movements and let his hair grow.[\[115\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-115)[\[116\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-116) His new personal wardrobe led to him presenting his first men's ready-to-wear collection in 1969.[\[117\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-117)
In September 1968, Saint Laurent opened the first Rive Gauche store in the United States on [Madison Avenue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Avenue "Madison Avenue") in Manhattan.[\[109\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:0-109) While in New York, he attended the exhibition of his costume sketches for ballet and theatrical productions at the Wright Hepburn Webster Gallery.[\[118\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:2-118) During this trip Saint Laurent and his entourage were denied entry to [Trader Vic's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Vic%27s "Trader Vic's") restaurant because the women were wearing pants.[\[118\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:2-118)
In 1971, he posed for a natural-looking nude photograph as part of the advertising campaign for his Pour Homme men's fragrance.[\[119\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-119)
During the 1970s, Saint Laurent came to be considered the most prominent designer in the world,[\[120\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-120)[\[121\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-121)[\[122\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-122)[\[123\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-123)[\[124\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-124) adapting his designs to modern women's needs.[\[125\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-125)[\[126\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-126)[\[127\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-127)[\[128\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-128) Though [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld")[\[129\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-129)[\[130\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-130) and [Jean Muir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Muir "Jean Muir")[\[131\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-131) occasionally approached him in critical appraisal and popularity, Saint Laurent remained the strongest influence on fashion throughout the decade, an era when the societal advances of the 1960s required designers to defer to the public's demands for practicality and comfort.[\[132\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-132)[\[133\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-133) Even in his sometimes lavish Russian peasant collections of the middle of the decade,[\[134\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-134)[\[135\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-135)[\[136\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-136) the clothes themselves remained comfortable and wearable.[\[137\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-137)[\[138\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-138)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Laurent_Rive_Gauche_%22Safari%22_jacket.jpg)
1968 "Safari" jacket for the Rive Gauche boutique
His controversial spring 1971 collection was inspired by 1940s fashion. Some felt it romanticized the [German occupation of France during World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_France_during_World_War_II "German occupation of France during World War II"), which he did not experience, while others felt it brought back the unattractive utilitarianism of the time.[\[139\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:3-139) The French newspaper *[France Soir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Soir "France Soir")* called the spring 1971 collection "Une grande farce!"[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100)
His spring 1971 couture collection marked other changes. Now that the liberatory trends of the 1960s and early '70s had become established, with women released from constricting undergarments and free to wear trousers in all settings and men also free to be more casual in their dress, advances aided in no small part by Saint Laurent, he shed some of the less appealing aspects of the youth culture of that period, particularly after losing a couple of young friends to the drug experimentation of the time.[\[140\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-140) While still exhibiting the pervasive relaxed, casual look, by 1972 he had begun to cut his hair and shave again and discarded the well-worn jeans and shoelessness.[\[141\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-141) Saint Laurent had nurtured ready-to-wear to the extent that it now eclipsed the haute couture in prominence.[\[142\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-142) In 1971, amidst heavy criticism of his 1940s-themed collection, he threatened to end his couture services entirely.[\[143\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-143) Instead, Saint Laurent and a few others declared in early 1972 that they would now show their couture pieces with their prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter,[\[144\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-144) but soon Saint Laurent began to worry publicly that the craftsmanship of the couture might be lost,[\[145\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-145) as well as the livelihoods of those who depended on him,[\[146\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-146) and he decided to carry on holding separate couture presentations.[\[147\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-147)
While the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line became extremely popular with the public[\[148\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-148) and eventually earned many times more for Saint Laurent and BergĂ© than the *haute couture* line, Saint Laurent's decision to continue producing haute couture lines resulted in some landmark collections as well during the 1970s, most famously the fall 1976 Russian Peasant collection, which brought the popular peasant silhouette of the time to a peak of exotic luxury,[\[149\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-149) but also his spring 1978 Broadway Suit presentation,[\[150\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-150) which inspired the fashion industry to move toward wide, [padded shoulders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_pad_\(fashion\)#Fall_1978 "Shoulder pad (fashion)").[\[151\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-151) However, Saint Laurent, whose health had been precarious for years, became erratic under the pressure of designing two *[haute couture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture "Haute couture")* and two *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* collections every year.
In 1976, Saint Laurent and Bergé ended their romantic relationship but remained business partners.[\[152\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-glbtq2-152) Saint Laurent increasingly turned to alcohol and drugs.[\[153\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-153) At some shows, he could barely walk down the runway at the end of the show, and he had to be supported by models.[\[154\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-154)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1988_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Jacket,_%22Homage_to_Vincent_van_Gogh%22_\(Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent,_Paris\).jpg)
1988 "Homage to Vincent Van Gogh" jacket, embroidered by [Lesage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Lesage "François Lesage")
Saint Laurent is credited with initiating in 1978 the prominently [shoulder-padded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_pads_\(fashion\)#Fall_1978 "Shoulder pads (fashion)") styles that would characterize the 1980s.[\[155\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-155)[\[156\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-156) He then relied on a restricted set of looks based largely on big-shouldered jackets and narrow skirts and trousers[\[157\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-157)[\[158\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-158) that wouldn't vary much for a decade,[\[159\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-159)[\[160\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-160)[\[161\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-161)[\[162\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-162) resulting in some fashion writers bemoaning the loss of his former inventiveness[\[163\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-163)[\[164\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-164) and others welcoming the familiarity.[\[165\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-165)[\[166\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-166)[\[167\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-167) Where in the 1960s and '70s his work had reflected the democratizing trends of the time,[\[168\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-168) during the 1980s his work conformed more to the tastes of the wealthy[\[169\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-169) as social inequality increased in society.[\[170\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-170)[\[171\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-171)[\[172\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-172) His broad-shouldered wardrobe basics now seemed geared more to the ladies-who-lunch set[\[173\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-173) than the liberated, casual young women he had been inspired by in the earlier 1970s, and his work was now often grouped with that of [Givenchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Givenchy "Hubert de Givenchy"),[\[174\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-174)[\[175\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-175) [Valentino](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_\(fashion_designer\) "Valentino (fashion designer)"), [Oscar de la Renta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_de_la_Renta "Oscar de la Renta"), and similar designers.[\[176\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-176)[\[177\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-177) He was noted in the early 1980s for his short, slim, sleek black leather skirts,[\[178\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-178)[\[179\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-179) with versions in metallic gold leather receiving raves from socialites in 1981.[\[180\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-180) After helping bring ready-to-wear to mass acceptance earlier in his career and nearly abandoning haute couture in the early 1970s, during the 1980s, with the nouveaux riches in ascendance and demanding showpieces,[\[181\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-181)[\[182\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-182)[\[183\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-183) he refocused on his couture lines, to the extent that observers felt that his prĂȘt-ĂĄ-porter was being neglected.[\[184\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-184) He was one of the last designers to give up big shoulder pads at the end of the eighties.[\[185\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-185)[\[186\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-186)
After a disastrous 1987 *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* show in New York City, which featured US\$100,000 jeweled casual jackets only days after the ["Black Monday" stock market crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_\(1987\) "Black Monday (1987)"), he turned over the responsibility of the *prĂȘt-Ă -porter* line to his assistants. Although the line remained popular with his fans, it was soon dismissed as "boring" by the press.[\[100\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice4-100)
In 1993, the Yves Saint Laurent business was sold to Sanofi.[\[187\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-187) He became increasingly reclusive, but continued to design the couture collection until 2002.[\[188\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-188)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Le_studio_d%27Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent,_Paris\)_-_31940295547.jpg)
Saint Laurent's studio, with a [toile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toile "Toile") for a Safari jacket
A favorite among his female clientele, Saint Laurent had a number of muses that inspired his work. Among them were: French model [Victoire Doutreleau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoire_Doutreleau "Victoire Doutreleau"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189) who opened his first fashion show in 1962;[\[190\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-190) [Loulou de la Falaise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loulou_de_la_Falaise "Loulou de la Falaise"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish model, who became the jewellery designer for the brand;[\[192\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-192) [Betty Catroux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Catroux "Betty Catroux"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) the half-Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat, who Saint Laurent considered his "twin sister";[\[193\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-193) French actress [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve");[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) French model Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain,[\[194\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-194) who inspired the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") suit;[\[195\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-195) American-French artist [Niki de Saint Phalle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_de_Saint_Phalle "Niki de Saint Phalle"), who also inspired the [Le Smoking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Smoking "Le Smoking") suit;[\[196\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-nytimes.com3-196) [Warhol superstar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_superstars "Warhol superstars") [Donna Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jordan "Donna Jordan"), who inspired his spring 1971 collection;[\[197\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-197) Mounia,[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) a model from Martinique who was the oft-used bride at his fashion shows; Kenyan model Khadija Adam Ismail;[\[198\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-198) [Lucie de la Falaise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_de_la_Falaise "Lucie de la Falaise"),[\[199\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-199)[\[200\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-200) a Welsh-French model and niece of Loulou, who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1990â1994; jewellery designer [Paloma Picasso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paloma_Picasso "Paloma Picasso");[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) Dutch actress [Talitha Getty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitha_Getty "Talitha Getty");[\[201\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-201)[\[202\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-202) American socialite [Nan Kempner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Kempner "Nan Kempner"),[\[203\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-203)[\[204\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-204) who was named ambassador for the brand;[\[205\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-205) Italian model [Marina Schiano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Schiano "Marina Schiano"),[\[189\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-kennedy2-189)[\[191\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-elsa2-191) who managed the YSL boutiques in North America; French model Nicole Dorier,[\[206\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-206) who became the director of his runway shows,[\[207\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-207) and later, the "memory" of his house when it became a museum; and French model [Laetitia Casta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetitia_Casta "Laetitia Casta"),[\[208\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-208) who was the bride in his fashion shows in 1998â2001.[\[209\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-209)
Saint Laurent died on 1 June 2008 of [brain cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_cancer "Brain cancer") at his residence in Paris.[\[210\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-210) According to *[The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")*, a few days prior, he and Bergé had been joined in a [same-sex civil union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union "Civil union") known as a [Pacte civil de solidarité](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarit%C3%A9 "Pacte civil de solidarité") (PACS) in France.[\[211\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-211) When Saint Laurent was diagnosed as terminal, with only one or two weeks left to live, Bergé and the doctor mutually decided that it would be better for him not to know of his impending death. Bergé said, "I have the belief that Yves would not have been strong enough to accept that."[\[212\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-212)
He was given a [Catholic funeral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_mass "Requiem mass") at [Ăglise Saint-Roch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Roch,_Paris "Saint-Roch, Paris") in Paris.[\[213\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-213) The funeral attendees included the former Empress of Iran [Farah Pahlavi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Pahlavi "Farah Pahlavi"), [Bernadette Chirac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Chirac "Bernadette Chirac"), [Catherine Deneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deneuve "Catherine Deneuve"), and President [Nicolas Sarkozy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy "Nicolas Sarkozy") and his wife, [Carla Bruni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bruni "Carla Bruni").[\[214\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-214)
His body was [cremated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremated "Cremated"), and his ashes were scattered in [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh"), Morocco, in the [Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden"), a residence and [botanical garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_garden "Botanical garden") that he owned with Bergé and often visited to find inspiration and refuge.[\[215\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-215) Bergé said at the funeral service (in French): "But I also know that I will never forget what I owe you and that one day I will join you under the Moroccan palms."
Yves Saint Laurent met Pierre Bergé in 1958. After falling in love, they co-founded the Yves Saint Laurent Couture House in 1961. They remained longtime friends and business partners after their amicable breakup in 1976.[\[216\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-216)
In 1970, Saint Laurent befriended pop artist [Andy Warhol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol "Andy Warhol") while the latter was filming *[L'Amour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Amour_\(film\) "L'Amour (film)")* in Paris.[\[139\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:3-139)[\[217\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-217) Saint Laurent had his portrait commissioned in 1972, and Warhol traveled to Paris to photograph him.[\[218\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-218) During a visit to New York in November 1972, Saint Laurent saw the portrait and remarked, "The colors are marvelous â orange, red, green, and pink."[\[219\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-219)[\[220\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-220) In February 1974, Saint Laurent hosted a party for Warhol to celebrate his one-man shows at the [MusĂ©e Galliera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Galliera "Palais Galliera") and the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris.[\[221\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-221)
In 1973, Saint Laurent began a six-month affair with [Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld")'s companion [Jacques de Bascher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Bascher "Jacques de Bascher").[\[222\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-222) Bergé ended their liaison in 1974, accusing de Bascher and Lagerfeld of being responsible for Saint Laurent's mental health issues and his increasing interest in hard drugs and [sadomasochism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism "Sadomasochism").[\[223\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-223)
During the 1970s, Saint Laurent was considered one of Paris's "[jet set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_set "Jet set")".[\[224\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-drake3-224) He was often seen at clubs in France and New York City, such as [Club Sept](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sept "Le Sept"), [Regine's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regine%27s "Regine's"), [Studio 54](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_54 "Studio 54"), and [Le Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Palace "Le Palace"), and was known to be both a heavy drinker and a frequent user of [cocaine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine "Cocaine").[\[225\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-alice5-225)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_Jardin_Majorelle-Yves_Saint_Laurent_Mansion,_Marrakech,_Morocco.jpg)
[Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden") in Marrakesh
Saint Laurent and Bergé made their first trip to [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh") in 1966, which marked the start of a lifelong passion for Moroccan culture.[\[226\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:03-226) Saint Laurent once stated, "Everything was black before Marrakech." "I learned color from this city, and I embraced its light, its bold blends, and its passionate inventions."[\[226\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:03-226) For multiple years to come, Saint Laurent and Bergé would return and purchase various properties. They acquired Dar Es Saada in 1974,[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) Villa Oasis 45 and Majorelle Garden in 1980,[\[228\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-228) and Villa Mabrouka in 1997.[\[229\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-229)
The duplex at 55 Rue de Babylone on the [Left Bank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Bank_of_the_Rhine "Left Bank of the Rhine") of Paris, which Saint Laurent and Bergé purchased in 1970, was highlighted in the May 1972 issue of [*British Vogue*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Vogue "British Vogue").[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) French architect [Jean-Michel Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Frank "Jean-Michel Frank") designed the apartment's interior in the 1920s in the [Art Deco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco "Art Deco") style.[\[227\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:1-227) The apartment featured vases by [Jean Dunand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dunand "Jean Dunand"), stools by Pierre Legrain, a red lacquer-framed stool by [Gustave Miklos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Miklos "Gustave Miklos"), an armchair by [Eileen Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gray "Eileen Gray"), and sheep chairs by [Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Lalanne "Les Lalanne").[\[230\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-230)
In 1983, Saint Laurent and Bergé bought a neo-gothic villa, *Chùteau Gabriel* in [Benerville-sur-Mer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benerville-sur-Mer "Benerville-sur-Mer"), near [Deauville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deauville "Deauville"), France.[\[231\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-231) Saint Laurent was a great admirer of [Marcel Proust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust "Marcel Proust") who had been a frequent guest of [Gaston Gallimard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Gallimard "Gaston Gallimard"), one of the previous owners of the villa. When they bought *Chùteau Gabriel*, Saint Laurent and Bergé commissioned [Jacques Grange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Grange "Jacques Grange") to decorate it with themes inspired by Proust's *[Remembrance of Things Past](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Things_Past "Remembrance of Things Past")*.[\[232\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-232)
In February 2009, an auction of 733 items from Saint Laurent and Bergé's collection was held by [Christie's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie%27s "Christie's") at the [Grand Palais](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais "Grand Palais"), ranging from paintings by [Picasso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso "Pablo Picasso") to [ancient Egyptian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt "Ancient Egypt") sculptures. The proceeds went to HIV and [AIDS research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_research "AIDS research").[\[233\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-233)
Before the sale commenced, the Chinese government tried to stop the sale of two of [twelve bronze statue heads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyantang "Haiyantang") taken from the [Old Summer Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace "Old Summer Palace") in China during the [Second Opium War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War "Second Opium War").[\[234\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-234) A French judge dismissed the claim and the sculptures, heads of a rabbit and a rat, sold for âŹ15,745,000. However, the anonymous buyer revealed himself to be Cai Mingchao, a representative of the [PRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC "PRC")'s National Treasures Fund, and claimed that he would not pay for them on "moral and patriotic grounds".[\[235\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-235) The heads remained in BergĂ©'s possession until acquired by [François Pinault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pinault "François Pinault"), owner of a number of luxury brands including Yves Saint Laurent.[\[236\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-236) He then donated them to China in a ceremony on 29 June 2013.[\[237\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-237)
On the first day of the sale, [Henri Matisse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse "Henri Matisse")'s painting *Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose* broke the previous [world record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record "World record") set in 2007 for a Matisse work and sold for 32 million euros. The record-breaking sale realized 342.5 million euros (ÂŁ307 million).[\[238\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-238) The subsequent auction, 17â20 November, included 1,185 items from the couple's Normandy villa. While not as impressive as the first auction, it featured the designer's last [Mercedes-Benz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz "Mercedes-Benz") car and his [HermĂšs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%A8s "HermĂšs") luggage.[\[239\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-239)
## Accolades and legacy
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Rue Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakesh
In 1982, Saint Laurent received the International Fashion Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.[\[240\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-240)
In 1983, Saint Laurent became the first living fashion designer to be honored by the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art") with a solo exhibition.[\[241\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-241)
In 1985, Saint Laurent was awarded an *Oscar de la mode* for his 'contribution to the history of fashion' at The Oscars of Fashion event in Paris.[\[242\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-242)
In 1999, Saint Laurent received the [Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Beene_Lifetime_Achievement_Award "Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award") at the [CFDA Fashion Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFDA_Fashion_Awards "CFDA Fashion Awards").[\[243\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-243)
In 2001, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of Commander of the [LĂ©gion d'Honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27Honneur "LĂ©gion d'Honneur") by French President [Jacques Chirac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac "Jacques Chirac").[\[244\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-244)
In 2007, Saint Laurent was awarded the rank of [Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_officier_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur "Grand officier de la LĂ©gion d'honneur") by French President [Nicolas Sarkozy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy "Nicolas Sarkozy").[\[245\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-245)[\[246\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-246)
In 2004, Saint Laurent created a foundation with Bergé in Paris to trace the history of the house of YSL, complete with 15,000 objects and 5,000 pieces of clothing.[\[247\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-247)
*[Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes "Forbes")* rated Saint Laurent the [top-earning dead celebrity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes%27_list_of_the_world%27s_highest-paid_dead_celebrity "Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrity") in 2009.[\[248\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-248)
In 2010, the street in front of the [Majorelle Garden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorelle_Garden "Majorelle Garden") in Marrakesh was renamed the Rue Yves Saint Laurent in his honor.[\[249\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-249)
In 2022, the "Yves Saint Laurent Aux MusĂ©es" exhibition was held simultaneously at six Parisian cultural institutions: the [Centre Pompidou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou "Centre Pompidou"), the [MusĂ©e dâArt Moderne de Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Art_Moderne_de_Paris "MusĂ©e d'Art Moderne de Paris"), the [MusĂ©e du Louvre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre "Louvre"), the [MusĂ©e dâOrsay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay "MusĂ©e d'Orsay"), the [MusĂ©e National PicassoâParis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Picasso "MusĂ©e Picasso"), and the [MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Paris "MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris"), demonstrating the enduring legacy of his work and his lifelong fascination with art.[\[250\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:4-250) This exhibition highlighted his connections to various art forms and his ability to blend fashion with artistic expression.[\[250\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:4-250)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mus%C3%A9e_Yves_Saint_Laurent_Avenue_Marceau_Paris_16_-_Vue2.jpg)
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris
The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris, housed in the old Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, opened its doors in 2017.[\[251\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-251) Through a continuously updated collection display, the museum chronicles his career.[\[252\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:04-252) The exhibition space was renovated by stage designer Nathalie CriniÚre and interior designer Jacques Grange.[\[252\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-:04-252)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Architetti_studio_ko,_museo_YSL_a_Marrakech.jpg)
YSL museum in [Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh "Marrakesh")
The [Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_Museum_in_Marrakesh "Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh"), also opened in 2017. Pierre Bergé personally chose the thousands of pieces of apparel and haute couture accessories housed in the 43,000-square-foot structure, which was created by the Paris-based studio Studio KO.[\[253\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-253)
Saint Laurent's childhood home in Oran, Algeria, where he lived until the age of 18, was purchased by the Oran entrepreneur Mohamed Affane. He transformed it into a museum, RĂ©sidence Yves Saint Laurent Oran, which opened in 2022.[\[254\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-254) The period furniture was recovered and around 400 sketches by Yves Saint-Laurent are exhibited, along with childhood photos of the designer.[\[255\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-255)[\[256\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-256)
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Study_of_Yves_Saint_Laurent_by_Reginald_Gray.jpg)
*Study of Yves Saint Laurent* by [Reginald Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Gray_\(artist\) "Reginald Gray (artist)"), 1976
- 2002: David Teboul's *Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times*[\[257\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-257)
- 2002: *Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris*[\[258\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-258)
- 2009: Tout Terriblement[\[259\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-259)
- 2010: Pierre Thoretton's *[L'Amour fou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Amour_fou_\(2010_film\) "L'Amour fou (2010 film)")*[\[260\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-260)
- 2014: *[Yves Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Yves Saint Laurent (film)")*[\[261\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-Yves_Saint_Laurent_Biopic_Wins_Pierre_Berg%C3%A9's_Approval-261) by [Pierre Niney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Niney "Pierre Niney")
- 2014: *[Saint Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Laurent_\(film\) "Saint Laurent (film)")*[\[262\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-262) by [Gaspard Ulliel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_Ulliel "Gaspard Ulliel")
- 2019: Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections[\[263\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-263)
- 1965: Appeared on 24 October as a "mystery guest" on the American television game show *[What's My Line?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F "What's My Line?")*[\[264\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-10-25-1965_What's_My_Line-264)
- 2024: *[Becoming Karl Lagerfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Karl_Lagerfeld "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld")* by [Arnaud Valois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Valois "Arnaud Valois")
- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2017). *Dior by YSL*. Photography by Laziz Hamani. Assouline. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-61428-599-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-599-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-599-1")
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[\[265\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-265)
- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2019). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography*. Rizzoli. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-8478-6339-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-6339-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-6339-6")
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- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2020). *Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection*. Assouline. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-61428-942-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-942-5 "Special:BookSources/978-1-61428-942-5")
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[\[266\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-266)
- Bergé, Pierre (2014). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion*. Illustrated by Lawrence Mynott. Abrams. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-4197-1349-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4197-1349-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-4197-1349-1")
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[\[267\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_note-267)
- Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography*. HarperCollins. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
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- Napias, Jean-Christophe; MauriĂšs, Patrick (2023). *The World According to Yves Saint Laurent*. Thames\&Hudson. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-500-02618-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-500-02618-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-500-02618-2")
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- BenaĂŻm, Laurence (2002). *Debut: Yves Saint Laurent 1962*. Abrams Books. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-8109-0561-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8109-0561-0 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8109-0561-0")
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- Werle, Simone (2010). *50 Fashion Designers You Should Know*. Prestel. pp. 64â68\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-3-7913-4413-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-7913-4413-3 "Special:BookSources/978-3-7913-4413-3")
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- Menkes, Suzy (2019). *Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections, 1962â2002*. Thames\&Hudson. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-300-24365-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-24365-9 "Special:BookSources/978-0-300-24365-9")
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- Reising, Kelly (2025). *The Essence of Yves Saint Laurent: Unfolded*. Helmin\&Sorgenfri. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-87-94190-60-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-87-94190-60-2 "Special:BookSources/978-87-94190-60-2")
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- Baxter-Wright, Emma (2021). *Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House*. Welbeck Publishing. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-1-78739-554-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78739-554-1 "Special:BookSources/978-1-78739-554-1")
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- [Yves Saint Laurent (brand)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(brand\) "Yves Saint Laurent (brand)")
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["Yves Saint Laurent, Who Has Died Aged 71, was, with Coco Chanel, regarded as the Greatest Figure in French Fashion in the 20th Century, and could be said to have Created the Modern Woman's Wardrobe"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080604051842/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2063264/Yves-Saint-Laurent.html). *The Daily Telegraph*. UK. 1 June 2008. Archived from [the original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2063264/Yves-Saint-Laurent.html) on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
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Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City); [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
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Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 208. "...Saint Laurent showed \[Michel de Brunhoff\] some drawings that looked astoundingly like the 'A-Line' collection Christian Dior had just designed..."
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["Debut at Dior"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/les-debuts-chez-dior). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 208. "Raymonde Zehnacker recalls: 'Just after Monsieur Dior showed his last collection, \[Dior\] said, "Raymonde, I'd like to tell the press that thirty-five of those models were completely designed by Yves Saint Laurent."...'"
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Radieva, Krasimira (2 March 2019). ["An Investigation of the Silhouettes of Christian Dior"](https://www.academia.edu/81000093). *Artte*. **7** (3): 173. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.15547/artte.2019.03.002](https://doi.org/10.15547%2Fartte.2019.03.002) (inactive 11 July 2025). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1314-8796](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1314-8796). Retrieved 23 May 2023. "...Dior based much of his Libre line on two classic items of clothing\[:\]...the vareuse, or fishermen's smock,...and...the khaki bush jacket"
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Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City); [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
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Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 204â205\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Yves Saint Laurent...at the age of 21 found himself perched upon the multi-million franc edifice of the most influential fashion house in the world....\[W\]ith his first collection,...he launched the \[T\]rapeze line....'Saint Laurent has saved France!' said the French headlines. 'The great Dior tradition will continue!'"
19. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-19)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 251. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "For the nation's largest industry, the well-being of its most prominent couture house was of great social and economic importance....Saint Laurent's first collection...was a resounding success."
20. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-20)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1958". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 246, 247. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Saint Laurent's \[T\]rapeze line, backbone of his successful first collection for Dior."
21. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-21)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 254. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's first collection introduced a new silhouette, the wedge-shaped 'Trapeze'..."
22. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-22)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 204. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "...\[W\]ith his first collection,...\[Saint Laurent\] launched the \[T\]rapeze line â not too different from Dior's A line, but just different enough."
23. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-23)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1955". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 239. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "Dior produces his new A line, a triangle widened from a small head and shoulders to a full pleated or stiffened hem."
24. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-24)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1955". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 230. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Dior's...'A' line consisted of coats, suits and dresses flared out into wide triangles from narrow shoulders. The waistline was the cross bar of the A and could be positioned either under the bust in an Empire manner or low down on the hips."
25. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-25)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1958". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 254. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "The dress sloped down from the shoulders to a widened hem just below the knee, maintaining a definite geometric line through precise tailoring."
26. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-26)**
["The Paris Demise of the No-Shape Chemise"](https://books.google.com/books?id=yVMEAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA79). *Life*. Vol. 45, no. 9. 1 September 1958. p. 79. "The only designer to lower the skirt length was Yves St. Laurent,...who dropped his five inches. And where other designers' clothes looked young and scanty, St. Laurent's were often sedate and bundled up."
27. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-27)**
["Bohan is Hired By Dior as Aide to St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/08/archives/bohan-is-hired-by-dior-as-aide-to-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 23. 8 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Bucking the trend toward kneecap-length skirts, St. Laurent dropped his hems to mid-calf or longer. Some viewers called the move a mistake."
28. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-28)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1958). "Paris Report". *Vogue*. **132** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 211. "'What does he think he is doing?' were the cries...when young Yves Saint Laurent of Dior dropped the skirt hem...\[W\]e do not believe this proportion will impose itself in general..."
29. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-29)**
["What to Look For in Paris Styles"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/05/archives/what-to-look-for-in-paris-styles.html). *The New York Times*: 18. 5 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "...American store buyers are asking \[St. Laurent\] to shorten the hems..."
30. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-30)**
["Bohan is Hired By Dior as Aide to St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/08/08/archives/bohan-is-hired-by-dior-as-aide-to-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 23. 8 August 1958. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Marc Bohan...has been hired by the House of Christian Dior to help Yves St. Laurent turn out Dior fashions for New York and South America..."
31. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-31)**
Donovan, Carrie (30 January 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Has the Feeling of the Thirties"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/01/30/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-has-the-feeling-of-the-thirties.html). *The New York Times*: 18. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "The spring collection, the third designed by young Yves St. Laurent, is full of the feeling of the Thirties....St. Laurent...now shows the same length that is shown all over Paris â an inch or two below the knee."
32. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-32)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1959). "Vogue's Eye View of Paris with a Difference". *Vogue*. **133** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 97. "Dior's...classic suit in what might now be called the Yves League manner..."
33. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-33)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1959). "Vogue's Eye View of Paris with a Difference". *Vogue*. **133** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 97. "At Dior,...a series of...middy dresses..."
34. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-34)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "A year later \[1959\], he made the common middy-blouse high fashion."
35. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-35)**
Hall, Harriet (16 December 2016). ["Celebrating 70 years of Christian Dior: From the New Look to feminist slogans"](https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/christian-dior-70-years-saint-laurent-galliano-raf-simons-maria-grazia-chiuri-new-look-fashion-style-history/121806). *Stylist*. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
36. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-36)**
Weller, Sheila (2015). [*The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour -- and the (ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aXbZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72). Penguin Books. p. 72. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-312777-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-312777-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-312777-2")
.
37. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-37)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "...\[H\]is biggest news was a skirt that gathered at the waist and bloused slightly over the top of a six-inch band at the hem, giving the impression of a puffed tunic."
38. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-38)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 208, 218â219\. "The Dior look,...the surprise skirt, a slender pouf rounding over a straight short skirt. Early Paris cables called this the hobble skirt, a perplexment easily dispelled by pictures....Dior pouf-skirted suit,...the skirt bloused over a skinny hem....St. Laurent makes skirt news: blousing at the knee, caught into a narrow hem."
39. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-39)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (1 September 1955). "Paris: The Rise of an Alluring New Look". *Vogue*. **126** (3). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 202. "Harem skirt â part of Dior's new Oriental feeling. This with narrow hem-band. \[Dress with harem skirt that flares out from fitted bodice and then is drawn in at the knee with bloused fullness billowing above a 'hem band' that extends to mid-calf.\]"
40. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-40)**
Wells, Dee (21 January 1957). ["Spring Fashion Trends from Abroad, Rome: Chiffon Dominates Three of Five Collections"](https://www.nytimes.com/1957/01/21/archives/spring-fashion-trends-from-abroad-rome-chiffon-dominates-three-of.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: F40. "Simonetta's...\[e\]vening dresses..., all ankle length, were charmingly pre-1920. One was so shamelessly sentimental as to be both hobble-skirted and in pale pink satin....Suits and jackets have hem-tightened skirts...The wine-glass skirt...is a graceful adaptation of the harem skirt."
41. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-41)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (15 March 1958). "Fashion in Italy". *Vogue*. **131** (6). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 67. "Another wafting shape, by Simonetta, in a miracle of silk and wool chiffon that...hangs with new assurance. \[A full, waistless sack/harem dress drawn into a constricting, bow-marked band at the knee-length hem, the fullness of the dress blousing over the knee-band.\]"
42. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-42)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (1 April 1958). "Shopping Guide to the New Shapes". *Vogue*. **131** (7). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 72â73\. "High waist; balloon skirt...Black silk crĂȘpe, ballooned out lightly between a high waist, close hemline....at Traina-Norell..."
43. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-43)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 210. "Day skirt-length news in Paris: Dior made the shortest, just grazing the kneecap and sometimes not quite."
44. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-44)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "Yves St. Laurent was busy taking up hems â a move that some approved, although many disapproved â while everyone else was letting them down. Sometimes, he exposed at least the front of a shapely knee."
45. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-45)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1948-1959: The Fashion-conscious Fifties". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 205. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[0-14-00-4955-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-00-4955-X "Special:BookSources/0-14-00-4955-X")
. "...Saint Laurent dropped the hem by three \[inches\] for his \[second\] collection. Twelve months later \[fall 1959\] he bared the knees, and caused an uproar....Radio programmes ran discussions on the likelihood of bare knees in Britain, and one newspaper headline said, 'Dior's man can do what he likes. We won't show our knees!'"
46. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-46)**
Donovan, Carrie (26 August 1959). ["French Styles en Route: Dior Skirt Splits Critics"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/26/archives/french-styles-en-route-dior-skirt-splits-critics.html). *The New York Times*: 32. Retrieved 30 June 2023. "...Yves Saint Laurent\['s\]...newly cut skirt...seemed to constrict the knees and then balloon above them. The skirt obviously was based on the hobble skirts of yore....The majority of the daily newspaper reporters immediately labeled it 'hobble'..."
47. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-47)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "...\[T\]he models hobbled and minced...They looked as if they might have been sped from the hand of Paul Poiret..."
48. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-48)**
["Christian Dior Cuts Skirt Length in Move Disrupting Couture World"](https://www.nytimes.com/1948/02/10/archives/christian-dior-cuts-skirt-length-in-move-disrupting-couture-world.html). *The New York Times*: 28. 10 February 1948. "...\[Dior\] suits have hobble skirts..."
49. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-49)**
Daves, Jessica, ed. (15 April 1958). "Listening-Post at the Italian Collections". *Vogue*. **133** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 80â81\. "...De Barentzen...showed...collars eye-high...with...two little pockets..."
50. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-50)**
Daves, Jessica (15 September 1959). "Paris Copies Here and Now". *Vogue*. **139** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 125. "...lace to the eyelashes."
51. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-51)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "A dramatic accessory note consisted of glistening four-inch-high chokers..."
52. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-52)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1959). "Paris to America: Collections Report â Autumn 1959". *Vogue*. **134** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 213. "Dior's...dress cut like an East Indian rajah coat..."
53. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-53)**
Peterson, Patricia (31 July 1959). ["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: St. Laurent of Dior Takes Up Hem"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/31/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-st-laurent-of-dior-takes-up-hem.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 14. "Even coiffures were decorated with giant pins. These wre worn on top of foot-high chignons..."
54. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-54)**
["Paris: Evening Clothes are Star Attractions Among New Fashions for Fall"](https://www.nytimes.com/1959/09/02/archives/paris-evening-clothes-are-star-attractions-among-new-fashions-for.html?searchResultPosition=3). *The New York Times*: 33. 2 September 1959. "Yves St. Laurent of Dior pouffed a short skirt in three bouncy tiers. In the red and black plaid taffeta he used for a number of young styles."
55. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-55)**
Daves, Jessica (1 March 1960). "Paris Report". *Vogue*. **135** (5). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 111, 112. "Dior's polo shirt suits point to a fresh fling for the middy look...Dior's young smock...that falls loosely over a short narrow skirt."
56. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-56)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1960). "Paris: Surprises, Controversies, Allure in the New Collections". *Vogue*. **136** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 221, 223. "The basic line that Yves St. Laurent presents is a long, long torso with no hint of waistline, ending at various points below the hips in little balloon skirts â the balloon skirt revived and changed in character by its use on the unfitted torso....\[223\] The long-legged Dior girls with knees showing below the barrel of balloon skirts â skirts looking even shorter because of the long, long torso overblouses....\[T\]his silhouette couples a long, reedy torso with a billowed skirt, often startlingly short."
57. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-57)**
["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/28/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-designer-creates-a-rather-severe-a.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 31. 28 July 1960. "Dior has abandoned the waist, elongated the torso and shifted the emphasis of the silhouette to well below the hips in a most provocative collection...The proportion is simply this: two parts for the torso and one part for the skirt, which can be a slight dirndl or a supple, melon-like puff that exposes the kneecap when the model walks....His miniature skirts were nearly always attached to tubular, sleeveless tops."
58. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-58)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1960). "Paris: Surprises, Controversies, Allure in the New Collections". *Vogue*. **136** (4). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 226. "Called 'CafĂ© de Flore,' after the famous student and intellectual hangout â a dress and jacket with a young, offhand charm. Grey wool flannel, slightly ballooned skirt; set-in turtle neck and watch cap of knitted wool."
59. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-59)**
["Fashion Trends Abroad, Paris: Dior Designer Creates a Rather Severe and Fluid Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/28/archives/fashion-trends-abroad-paris-dior-designer-creates-a-rather-severe-a.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 31. 28 July 1960. "...wide-legged hostess pants that could easily be mistaken for huge skirts....a fabulous white mink pullover and floppy, black velvet pants."
60. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-60)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1960". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 262â263\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's decision to interpret...youthful street fashion in expensive materials caused a furore at Dior...His Left Bank 'Beat Look' included black leather suits and coats, knitted caps, high turtleneck collars, and biker-style jackets in mink and crocodile skin....Saint Laurent had failed to court the buyers and press by gently evolving a line collection by collection."
61. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-61)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1960". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 272. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "The beat look is the news at Dior...pale zombie faces; leather suits and coats; knitted caps and high turtleneck collars, black endlessly....Saint Laurent's...'beat' collection is the most unpopular look in Paris, and his last for Dior."
62. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-62)**
["5 Must-Know Tales About The Late Yves Saint Laurent"](https://en.vogue.me/fashion/5-things-to-know-about-yves-saint-laurent/). *Vogue Arabia*. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
63. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-63)**
["Marc Bohan Appointed Dior's New Designer"](https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/29/archives/marc-bohan-appointed-diors-new-designer.html). *The New York Times*: 38. 29 September 1960. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "The fashion house of Christian Dior...has bestowed the ultimate glory on...Marc Bohan. It has been announced that Bohan will replace...Yves Saint Laurent as chief designer."
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Torpy, Bill. ["Metro Atlanta Business News"](http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/06/02/stlaurent_0603.html). ajc.com. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
66. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-66)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 268â269\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "He received financial backing from a variety of sources, including a businessman from Georgia and the cosmetics company Charles of the Ritz..."
67. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-67)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 268. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "...Saint Laurent...was joined by many of the staff from Dior when he opened his own house."
68. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-68)**
Molli, Jeanne (24 October 1962). ["Dior to Sue Yves St. Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/10/24/archives/dior-to-sue-yves-st-laurent.html). *The New York Times*: 42. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "Approximately 25 \[Dior\] employees...have gone to work for St. Laurent."
69. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-69)**
["Better Living: The Best Suits Since Chanel"](https://books.google.com/books?id=kE0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA91). *Life*. Vol. 52, no. 9. 2 March 1962. p. 91. Retrieved 5 February 2025. "Yves St. Laurent turned out to be the best suitmaker since Chanel. Mostly of tweed in off-beat color combinations, his suits had a crisp, young style...St. Laurent quickly sold out his first batch of suits to store buyers..."
70. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-70)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 269. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "...Saint Laurent...launched the brassiĂšre dress, an early example of the cut-out theme."
71. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-71)**
Lambert, Eleanor. "Fashion and Dress". *1963 Britannica Book of the Year: Events of 1962*. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 365. "An outstanding success was scored by Yves St. Laurent...St. Laurent's long, middy-like tunic, pear-shaped draped skirts and circus-pony headdresses on high coiffures were seen as fashion prophecies for 1963."
72. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-72)**
Peterson, Patricia (30 January 1962). ["Yves St. Laurent in Debut on His Own"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/30/archives/yves-st-laurent-in-debut-on-his-own.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: F33. Retrieved 29 August 2024. "...St. Laurent, although he produced a very good collection, did not say anything new."
73. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-73)**
Donovan, Carrie (12 August 1962). ["Paris Hit"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/12/archives/paris-hit.html). *The New York Times*: 50. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "Called a prodigy...in 1957...\[h\]is success was not repeated until now....His first collection was less than a smash but his second...has lifted him to the pinnacle of Paris couture."
74. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-74)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1962). "Paris? The Answer: Yes". *Vogue*. **140** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 160. "St. Laurent's second collection for his own house was a glittering tour de force, greeted with the special kind of emotional fervour reserved for such occasions."
75. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-75)**
Donovan, Carrie (1 August 1962). ["Praise Given to Givenchy Rivals St. Laurent Acclaim"](https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/01/archives/praise-given-to-givenchy-rivals-st-laurent-acclaim.html). *The New York Times*: 35. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "...\[B\]uyers are...acclaiming the Givenchy and St. Laurent showings as the great collections of the season..."
76. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-76)**
["First Color Views of '62 Paris Styles"](https://books.google.com/books?id=Fk4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA80). *Life*. Vol. 53, no. 9. 31 August 1962. p. 77. "...Yves Saint Laurent's second collection...established him firmly on a par with the Paris masters..."
77. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-77)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 276. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "...his black ciré satins with ruffs of black mink, his rajah coats and tubular dresses worn with turbans and dark stockings, his long pulled-down tops and barrel skirts, all worn with rich dark jewellery."
78. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-78)**
Daves, Jessica (1 September 1962). "Paris? The Answer: Yes". *Vogue*. **140** (4). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 160. "Saint Laurent's...pullover tunics somewhat like a fisherman's overblouse...one in pale-grey satin, the most elegant fisherman's smock in the world, with sleeves gathered to a wide yoke..."
79. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-79)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "For the winter of 1962, in his second collection at his own house, he taught the fashion world that smocks and pea jackets could be the height of chic."
80. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-80)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 277. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "The Left Bank look makes good now that Saint Laurent finds his independent fashion identity..."
81. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-81)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1961-62". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 276. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "His autumn \[1962\] collection brings the Left Bank into the couture with total success."
82. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-82)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1963". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 277. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent's 1960 beat look was belatedly adapted: Samuel Robery showed simple leather shifts, Scaasi presented black alligator trousers, Ellen Brooke used black lacquered alligator for windbreaker jackets, and mock alligator was chosen by Modelia for polo coats and by David Kidd for short coats."
83. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-83)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1962". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 271. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "The most important coat to come out of the couture this year \[1962\] was Saint Laurent's 'pea jacket.' Modelled on the sailor's traditional double-breasted garment and already an American classic, it now gained lasting international popularity."
84. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-84)**
["Paris Fashion Copies"](https://books.google.com/books?id=bU4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+saint+laurent&pg=PA131). *Life*. Vol. 52, no. 14. 6 April 1962. p. 131. "Most Paris originals are first seen at high prices, gradually filter down to low. St. Laurent's famous pea jacket is an exception. He copied it from the humble sailor's coat..."
85. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-85)**
Howell, Georgina (1978). "1963". *In Vogue: Sixty Years of Celebrities and Fashion from British Vogue*. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 280. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-14-004955-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-14-004955-8")
. "From Paris,...Saint Laurent's painter shirt and peasant's smock..."
86. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-86)**
Cassini, Oleg. "Fashion". *Collier's 1964 Year Book Covering the Year 1963*. The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. p. 281. "By day the country look for the city was typified by St. Lauret's tweed smock worn de rigueur with heavy, textured stockings and walking shoes."
87. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-87)**
Peterson, Patricia (30 July 1963). ["St. Laurent and Chanel Designs New but Familiar"](https://www.nytimes.com/1963/07/30/archives/st-laurent-and-chanel-designs-new-but-familiar.html). *The New York Times*: 16. Retrieved 15 March 2024. "...\[B\]oots by Roger Vivier wrapped the leg to mid-thigh."
88. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-88)**
Peake, Andy (2018). "Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir". *Made for Walking*. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Fashion Press. p. 57. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7643-5499-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1")
. "Yves Saint Laurent's fall...1963...visored caps, black leather jerkins, and Roger Vivier's towering cuissardes \[thigh-high boots\] in black crocodile...gave what \[the *Daily Mail*'s Iris\] Ashley called 'a real space girl effect...'"
89. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-89)**
["First Tuxedo"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/premier-smoking). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "In his Autumn-Winter 1966 collection, Yves Saint Laurent introduced his most iconic piece: the tuxedo....\[T\]he Saint Laurent Rive Gauche version was a success. The label's younger clientele was quick to purchase it, making the tuxedo a classic. Saint Laurent would go on to include it in each of his collections until 2002."
90. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-nytimes.com2_90-0)**
[Emerson, Gloria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson "Gloria Emerson") (5 August 1966). ["A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"](https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/05/archives/a-nude-dress-that-isnt-saint-laurent-in-a-new-mad-mood.html). *The New York Times*: R53. Retrieved 23 July 2023. "Niki de Saint-Phalle, an American artist living in \[France\], has had the best influence of all on Saint Laurent...Miss Saint-Phalle...always wears trouser suits with...boots....Now Saint Laurent has copied her 'black tie' trouser suit in velvet and in wool....In wool, it has a very ruffly white shirt, a big black bow at the neck, a wide cummerbund of satin, and satin stripes down the rather wide pants. It is worn with...satin boots."
91. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-91)**
Emerson, Gloria (26 July 1967). ["Paris Couturiers Hedge All Bets"](https://www.nytimes.com/1967/07/26/archives/paris-couturiers-hedge-all-bets.html?searchResultPosition=6). *The New York Times*: 26. "The newest Vivier shoe â some will be seen...in Yves Saint Laurent's collection â is called 'le socle.' It only means a thick platform sole. Socle is the French word for pedestal....Even when he designs a boot that covers the leg...there is often the platform sole..."
92. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-92)**
["First Safari Jacket"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/premiere-saharienne-pe). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. Retrieved 18 July 2023. "Yves Saint Laurent first introduced the safari jacket in his 1967 runway shows. However, it was a one-off design created for a photo-essay for *Vogue* (Paris) the following year that made the design famous and quickly turned it into a classic."
93. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-93)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1957-1967". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 243. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent frequently visited London during the sixties to find inspiration in the boutiques on King's Road."
94. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-94)**
Bender, Marylin (9 December 1969). ["The Fashion Decade: As Hems Rose, Barriers Fell"](https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/09/archives/the-fashion-decade-as-hems-rose-barriers-fell.html). *The New York Times*: 63. "It was a decade in which the...rich stole their fads from hippies who rejected materialism."
95. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-95)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (15 November 1968). "Vogue's Own Boutique". *Vogue*. **152** (9). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 193. "Yves...wandered into Central Park during a New York visit, remained, bemused, enchanted by the hippie scene. Who knows how this may affect the world's fashion scene."
96. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-96)**
Bender, Marylin (1 February 1968). ["A Little Newcomer Joins Cardin's His'n'Her Fashion Line"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/01/archives/shop-talk-a-little-newcomer-joins-cardins-his-n-her-fashion-line.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 32. "...Yves Saint Laurent has endorsed...the hippie mood..."
97. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-97)**
Giraud, Françoise (12 September 1965). ["After CourrÚges, What Future for the Haute Couture?"](https://www.nytimes.com/1965/09/12/archives/after-courreges-what-future-for-the-haute-couture-after-courreges.html?searchResultPosition=13). *The New York Times*: SM50. "...\[I\]t was Yves St. Laurent who had the courage to say, 'We all needed CourrÚges...He woke us up.'"
98. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-98)**
[Emerson, Gloria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Emerson "Gloria Emerson") (5 August 1966). ["A Nude Dress That Isn't: Saint Laurent in a New, Mad Mood"](https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/05/archives/a-nude-dress-that-isnt-saint-laurent-in-a-new-mad-mood.html). *The New York Times*: R53. Retrieved 23 July 2023. "...\[T\]here are moments...when Yves Saint Laurent...strains too hard to convince the world how much he is hand-to-hand and eye-to-eye with the very young....\[T\]he pop art dresses in Saint Laurent's new fall collection...should have been...saved as a private joke for a few friends...Saint Laurent may have just discovered Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, but others did quite long ago."
99. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-drake2_99-0)** [Drake, Alicia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Drake "Alicia Drake"). *The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris*. Little, Brown and Company, 2006. p.49.
100. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-1) [***c***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-alice4_100-2)
Rawsthorn, Alice (1996). *Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography.* [Nan A. Talese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese "Nan A. Talese")/[Doubleday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_\(publisher\) "Doubleday (publisher)") (New York City); [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-385-47645-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-47645-4")
101. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-101)**
["Yves Saint-Laurent"](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756721/). *IMDb*. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
102. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-102)**
Emerson, Gloria (27 May 1967). ["Saint Laurent's Latest Creation: A Sadistic Little Lulu"](https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/27/archives/st-laurents-latest-creation-a-sadistic-little-lulu.html?searchResultPosition=4). *The New York Times*: FS18. "...his first book, "La Vilaine Lulu"...published by Claude Tchou in Paris...Saint Laurent's sketches and text show the adventures of Nasty Lulu, who...has a horrid vocabulary\[,\]...whose confidant is an English-speaking white rat\[,\]...\[who\] drinks in the morning, sets fire to houses when people are inside them, and seems to loathe mothers....Lulu is a sadist....He began doodling Lulu...\[i\]n 1956..."
103. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-103)**
["1956: La Vilaine Lulu"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/la-vilaine-lulu). *MusĂ©e Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. "...\[I\]n 1967, the writer Françoise Sagan encouraged Saint Laurent to publish Lulu's adventures with the Ăditions Tchou. This album has been republished three times."
104. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-104)**
["Decoding the Styles of the 70's"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/30/archives/fashion-view-decoding-the-styles-of-the-70s.html). *The New York Times*: SM6. 30 December 1979. Retrieved 10 December 2021. "Take the antiâestablishment 60's...: the untamed manes of the flower children, the faded jeans of the affluenceârejecting hippies, the discarded bras of the women's liberation movement, the kneeâfreeing skirts..., and the streetâimitating gear of the radical chic...share...an antifashion attitude that became...powerful and pervasive..."
105. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-105)**
Liber, Nadine (8 October 1971). ["Yves St. Laurent, New King of Off-the-Rack Fashion"](https://books.google.com/books?id=C0AEAAAAMBAJ&dq=yves+laurent&pg=PA93). *Life*. Vol. 71, no. 15. p. 93. "Five years ago \[1966\], St. Laurent went through what he describes as 'a horrible crisis'...He saw the young generation shaking off old taboos in clothes, in outlook, in behavior, creating a new environment. He desperately wanted to be part of it...'I began to realize that fashion can come from anywhere,' he says. 'Daily life is where a clothes designer belongs today'."
106. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-106)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (1 July 1969). "Yves's Other Eden: Saint Laurent in Marrakech". *Vogue*. **154** (1). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 149. "...Yves Saint Laurent is probably the activist of the French couture â he understands how young people feel, knows how they want to look."
107. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-107)**
Morris, Bernadine (2 August 1975). ["The Paris Couture: Serenely Relevant Most of the Time"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/02/archives/the-paris-couture-serenely-relevant-most-of-the-time.html?searchResultPosition=9). *The New York Times*: 38. "Yves Saint Laurent was the first of the couturiers to grasp the change in the attitudes of women...to clothes. First, he picked up inspiration from what people wore on the street, not eschewing denim, poplin and patchwork leather."
108. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-108)**
Dryansky, G. Y. (1 January 1980). "Saint Laurent All the Way". *Vogue*. **170** (12). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 152. "He owes his success, the full flowering of his talent, to the street and he knows it. Saint Laurent came to power in fashion during the 'sixties, when the class-compartmentalized and ethnic dialects of dress had begun to merge feverishly....\[E\]verybody's clothes...were...claiming values, politics...Saint Laurent's eclectic, empirical desire to transform the street's own ideas into something similar, better, touched by genius proved the triumphant form of modernism."
109. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:0_109-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:0_109-1)
Morris, Bernadine (16 September 1968). ["Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue â Rive Gauche"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/16/archives/saint-laurent-has-a-new-name-for-madison-ave-rive-gauche.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 23 April 2023. "During the student upheavals in Paris in May \[1968\], \[Saint Laurent\] saw the girls and boys behind the barricades dressed...in pants...'They looked beautiful...,' he said...'Fashion is not only couture....Events are more important.'...\[In\] his last Paris couture collection, shown in July,...\[p\]ants outfits overshadowed more conventional attire."
110. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-110)**
Morris, Bernadine (15 August 1976). ["Fashion: Paris Report"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/15/archives/fashion-paris-report-peasant-luxe.html). *The New York Times*. p. 179. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "In the late 1960's, \[Saint Laurent\] watched the student riots in Paris and came up with the pants suit, which everyone is still wearing."
111. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-111)**
Heathcote, Phyllis W. (1970). "Fashion and Dress". *Britannica Book of the Year 1970: Events of 1969*. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 341. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-85229-144-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85229-144-3 "Special:BookSources/978-0-85229-144-3")
. "Leading Paris couturier Yves St. Laurent, from whose influence the vogue for trousers could be said to have stemmed, continued to promote them in his spring and fall \[1969\] collections."
112. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-112)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 October 1968). ["Even the Restaurateurs Concede That Pants are Fashionable"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/10/07/archives/even-the-restaurateurs-concede-that-pants-are-fashionable.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 13 July 2023. "Pants...have the endorsement of...Yves Saint Laurent, who devoted a good part of his last Paris collection to them and now is selling them like blue jeans...The wider cut to the legs has won many adherents."
113. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-113)**
Morris, Bernadine (10 March 1970). ["Saint Laurent's American Sportswear"](https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/10/archives/saint-laurents-american-sportswear.html?searchResultPosition=7). *The New York Times*: 46. "Saint Laurent...helped put women all over the world in pants."
114. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-114)**
Peterson, Patricia (7 August 1964). ["This is the Look from the French Couture for Fall, '64"](https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/07/this-is-the-look-from-the-french-couture-for-fall-64.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 32. "Paris has finally approved of the pants suit, first started by Andre CourrĂšges in his spring collection...."
115. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-115)**
Morris, Bernadine (16 September 1968). ["Saint Laurent Has a New Name for Madison Avenue â Rive Gauche"](https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/16/archives/saint-laurent-has-a-new-name-for-madison-ave-rive-gauche.html). *The New York Times*: 54. Retrieved 23 April 2023. "...\[Yves Saint Laurent\] mused on the changes in fashion since he went to work for Christian Dior...'That was the time when everybody wanted to look very rich,' he said. 'Now \[1968\] I think it is the contrary....'"
116. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-116)**
Morris, Bernadine (6 February 1971). ["The Romans Didn't Waste Any Time About Shorts"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/06/archives/the-romans-didnt-waste-any-time-about-shorts.html). *The New York Times*: 18. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Until 10 years ago \[1961\], street clothes were very formal. Now that's all changed."
117. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-117)**
Vreeland, Diana, ed. (1 July 1969). "Yves's Other Eden: Saint Laurent in Marrakech". *Vogue*. **154** (1). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 149. "Now, Yves has designed his first, small collection of ready-to-wear clothes for men..."
118. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:2_118-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:2_118-1)
Graham, Rubye (22 September 1968). ["Headwaiters bar Yves and his pants"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-headwaiters-ba/181864387/). *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. p. 10. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
119. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-119)**
Bumpus, Jessica (26 May 2010). ["YSL the Model"](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nude-yves-saint-laurent-photograph-to-be-auctioned). *British Vogue*. Retrieved 15 August 2025. "A photograph of a nude Yves Saint Laurent...was used for the first YSL eau de toilette for men, Pour Homme, advertising campaign in 1971."
120. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-120)**
["Paris Report: Last Winter's Wardrobe Need Not Go to Thrift Shop â Yet"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/24/archives/paris-report-last-winters-wardrobe-need-not-go-to-thrift-shop-yet.html?searchResultPosition=11). *The New York Times*: 34. 24 April 1971. Retrieved 24 August 2024. "The presence of one designer â Yves Saint Laurent â overshadows the collections."
121. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-121)**
["Yves Saint Laurent: He's Still Flirting with the Midi Length"](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/23/archives/yves-saint-laurent-hes-still-flirting-with-the-midi-length.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 47. 23 April 1971. Retrieved 24 August 2024. "...\[H\]is work...has been reflected in almost every showing of readyâtoâwear designers...\[O\]ther designers have been borrowing liberally from him."
122. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-122)**
Morris, Bernadine (26 July 1974). ["Courreges's Fun Belies Uncertainty of Couture"](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/26/archives/courregess-fun-belies-uncertainty-of-couture-blouses-for-250.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 38. "...\[W\]hen Saint Laurent gets behind a style, the world generally follows."
123. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-123)**
[Hyde, Nina S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (21 September 1978). ["Saint Laurent: On the Scent of a New 'Seduction'"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/09/21/saint-laurent-on-the-scent-of-a-new-seduction/8a19f270-4c0b-4dbd-ab8d-2182863ed7f8/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 18 March 2022. "He is the most influential fashion designer in the world..."
124. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-124)**
Burgess, Anthony (11 September 1977). ["All About Yves"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/11/archives/fashion-all-about-yves-fashion-yves.html?searchResultPosition=11). *The New York Times*: 237. "...Yves Saint Laurent...is now universally acknowledged *roi de la mode* \[king of fashion\]."
125. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-125)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The Condé Nast Publications: 123. "...Yves Saint Laurent always knows exactly what we want at exactly the right time..."
126. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-126)**
Morris, Bernadine (29 January 1976). ["Saint Laurent: The Theme is Mannish"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/29/archives/saint-laurent-the-theme-is-mannish.html?searchResultPosition=2). *The New York Times*: 52. "...Yves Saint Laurent...simply tunes into the mood of the times and reflects it in uncomplicated clothes."
127. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-127)**
Morris, Bernadine (10 April 1975). ["Saint Laurent: A Classic Mood, A Comfortable Look"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/10/archives/saint-laurenta-classic-mood-a-comfortable-look.html?searchResultPosition=10). *The New York Times*: 45. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "Yves Saint Laurent\['s\]...clothes...are nice, clean, casual clothes to keep a woman looking calm and controlled as she moves through the anxieties of modern living."
128. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-128)**
Morris, Bernadine (12 April 1978). ["Saint Laurent: The Clothes are the Message"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/12/archives/saint-laurent-the-clothes-are-the-message.html). *The New York Times*. p. C14. Retrieved 1 December 2021. "The reason why he is the most copied designer in the world is because he looks at the way people live and the way they dress and then tries to make them look a little better."
129. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-129)**
Morris, Bernadine (9 May 1975). ["Fashion Talk"](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/09/archives/fashion-talk-nothing-to-get-alarmed-about-on-seventh-ave.html). *The New York Times*: 41. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "...\[I\]t has been interesting to notice Karl Lagerfeld replacing Yves Saint Laurent as the favorite mentor of some American designers."
130. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-130)**
Morris, Bernadine (28 October 1977). ["Exuberance Ruled French Fashion Week"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/28/archives/exuberance-ruled-french-fashion-week.html). *The New York Times*: A18. Retrieved 27 March 2022. "The mostâapplauded collections...were those of the giants, Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe and Yves Saint Laurent."
131. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-131)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1968-1975". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 299. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "An American survey in 1975...reported that \[Jean\] Muir and Saint Laurent were the most widely copied designers in the world."
132. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-132)**
Embree, Alice (2021). "Raising Our Voices: 1973-1979". *Voice Lessons*. Austin, TX, USA: Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. p. 174. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-9997318-6-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9997318-6-4 "Special:BookSources/978-0-9997318-6-4")
. "In 1970, the women's movement began to take dress down an increasingly informal path. T-shirts, blue jeans, cutoffs, hiking boots, hair flowing freely...Women disposed of bras and freed their breasts under T-shirts or blue work shirts....Relaxed informality settled into the mainstream. In the '70s, political statements moved from buttons to...T-shirts."
133. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-133)**
Morris, Bernadine (1 January 1974). ["As Styles Move into History, A Pattern of Society Emerges"](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/01/archives/as-styles-move-into-history-a-pattern-of-society-emerges.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*. p. 10. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "Keeping up with fashion is being put down by busy, productive women who claim (a) they have no time for it, (b) it's a frivolous occupation, and (c) fashion is a conspiracy on the part of designers to persuade feather-headed women to keep pouring out money for clothes they do not really need but are made to feel they want."
134. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-134)**
Peake, Andy (2018). "The New Ease in Fashion". *Made for Walking*. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Fashion Press. p. 113. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-7643-5499-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-7643-5499-1")
. "...\[I\]n 1974,...Saint Laurent created a Russian-themed collection....Saint Laurent's collection featured full skirts that fell below the knees, thick sweaters, capes, quilted gold jackets, velvet and satin knickerbockers, long fur coats and matching fur hats, and a new, and very distinctive, style of knee-length fashion boot...loose-fitting..."
135. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-135)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 April 1976). ["Saint Laurent Was Hailed and Adored; For Kenzo, Tumult and Frenzy"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/07/archives/saint-laurent-was-hailed-and-adored-for-kenzo-tumult-and-frenzy.html). *The New York Times*. p. 47. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "Next fall's peasants, according to Saint Laurent, will wear boots and babushkas..."
136. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-136)**
Freund, Andreas (8 August 1976). ["The Empire of Saint Laurent"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/08/archives/the-empire-of-saint-laurent.html). *The New York Times*. p. 87. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "The noise about Saint Laurent's big silhouette and folkloric look served to enhance his reputation..."
137. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-137)**
Morris, Bernadine (2 January 1977). ["This Year, Fashion Casts Its Vote for Freedom"](https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/02/archives/this-year-fashion-casts-its-vote-for-freedom.html?searchResultPosition=1). *The New York Times*: 48. "...Saint Laurent's peasant look...did not attempt to constrict the body."
138. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-138)**
Morris, Bernadine (7 August 1976). ["Styles Through History: The Roots of the New New Look"](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/07/archives/styles-through-history-roots-of-new-new-look.html?searchResultPosition=7). *The New York Times*: 38. "...Yves Saint Laurent's glorified peasant collection...bouffant skirts, small waistlines and...luxury, paradoxically within a peasant silhouette....Though...there are corselet belts at the waistline, nothing is cinched in tightly."
139. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:3_139-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-:3_139-1)
Christy, Marian (5 March 1971). ["Paris in Trouble: Fashion Admits to a Defeat"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-paris-in-trouble/181862962/). *Philadelphia Daily News*. p. 20. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
140. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-140)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "Two of his great friends of the 'sixties died last year. Barely thirty, both represented the psychedelic breakaway of the 'sixties; both died tragically proving the breakaway in itself was not an answer."
141. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-141)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "Yves'\[s\] life-style is also in direct opposition to that of a few years back....Gone are the jeans and bare feet. Yves wears carefully pressed gabardine trousers, an immaculate shirt, a beige cashmere cardigan over his shoulders. Gone the long hair and beard."
142. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-142)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1968-1975". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 303. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "Saint Laurent was the most successful and influential to combine the art of the couture with the economic realities of the prĂȘt-Ă -porter....By the mid-seventies he had settled into the role of supreme ready-to-wear designer."
143. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-143)**
Liber, Nadine (8 October 1971). ["Yves St. Laurent, New King of Off-the-Rack Fashion"](https://books.google.com/books?id=C0AEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA93&dq=yves+laurent&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjf9tSlod2LAxUX_8kDHZVGB58Q6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=yves%20laurent&f=false). *Life*. Vol. 71, no. 15. p. 93. "Yves St. Laurent stunned the fashion world this summer with the announcement that he was abandoning the haute couture of Paris....St. Laurent will continue to design clothes for a few private clients."
144. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-144)**
Morris, Bernadine (28 January 1972). ["Couture Alive, Pulse Fading"](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/28/archives/couture-alive-pulse-fading.html?searchResultPosition=4). *The New York Times*: 68. "...Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent... decided to boycott the traditional January couture shows. They agreed to present their collections in April, when the readyâtoâwear houses show their lines."
145. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-145)**
Russell, Mary (1 November 1972). "Saint Laurent Talks About Women, Fashion, Beauty". *Vogue*. **160** (8). New York, NY, USA: The CondĂ© Nast Publications: 123â124\. "'I feel a new appreciation for the almost lost art of the artisan, the ones who could not exist without the Couture â the artisans must not be lost'."
146. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-146)**
Rose, Barbara (1 October 1978). "The Intimate Yves". *Vogue*. **168** (10). New York, NY, USA: The Conde Nast Publications: 404. "'At one point, I was very tempted to design for mass manufacture, to quit the couture, but it was too late. I had too much responsibility to the people who had helped me establish my maison. I couldn't abandon them'."
147. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-147)**
Morris, Bernadine (29 July 1972). ["Cardin, At Least, Said Something New"](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/29/archives/cardin-at-least-said-something-new.html?searchResultPosition=19). *The New York Times*: 16. "Three concerns tried to throw in their lot with ready-toâwear, but Robert Ricci, Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent reneged. When it came couture time, they ran up a few more styles and held couture shows."
148. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-148)**
Russell, Mary (5 March 1978). ["What They're Wearing in Paris, Milan, Tokyo"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/05/archives/what-theyre-wearing-in-paris-milan-tokyo-paris-milan-paris-milan.html?searchResultPosition=12). *The New York Times*: AS11. Retrieved 7 April 2024. "Paris: On the Right Bank, Saint Laurent can be seen in all his glory, worn by women of every age and nationality..."
149. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-149)**
Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1976". *Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion*. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. pp. 353, 354. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)")
[978-0-670-80172-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-670-80172-5")
. "This was Saint Laurent's annus mirabilis. In a feast of theatrics and colour he showed his first famous Carmen dresses....Saint Laurent's autumn collection burst forth with romantic fantasy. For the day, he showed a collarless, slightly square jacket with Tyrolean fastenings, either plain or with a subtle stripe, worn over a dirndl skirt and Russian blouse, lying flat on the collarbone and simply tied. A dramatic shawl, Russian-style fur-trimmed hat and a hooded, velvet cape completed the look. Trousers were very narrow, and everything was worn with Cossack-style, baggy boots."
150. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-150)**
["1978 Broadway Suit Collection"](https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/collection-broadway-suit). *Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris*. "'YSL's...mannequin...got ovations every time she sauntered out on the runway in another version of the spencer jacket'."
151. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-151)**
McEvoy, Marion (12 November 1978). ["Where the Pads Come From"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/where-the-pads-come-from.html). *The New York Times*: 240. Retrieved 21 November 2021. "Yves Saint Laurent's manâtailored suit, introduced in January 1978, put emphasis on bigger, built-out shoulders. American designers simultaneously backed the builtâup look and started adding shoulder apparatus of their own."
152. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-glbtq2_152-0)**
Cole, Shaun (2002). ["Saint Laurent, Yves"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070814081121/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/saintlaurent_y.html). *[glbtq.com](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glbtq.com "Glbtq.com")*. Archived from [the original](http://www.glbtq.com/arts/saintlaurent_y.html) on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
153. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-153)**
Horyn, Cathy (24 December 2000). ["Yves of Destruction"](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/magazine/yves-of-destruction.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
154. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-154)**
["'Saint Laurent': Another view of the great fashion designer"](https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/saint-laurent-another-view-of-the-great-fashion-designer/). *The Seattle Times*. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
155. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-155)**
Donovan, Carrie (12 November 1978). ["Why the Big Change Now"](https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/12/archives/why-the-big-change-now.html). *The New York Times*. p. 226. Retrieved 18 November 2021. "What Saint Laurent sprang on the fashion world last January when he introduced manâtailored suit jackets with shoulders squared out with padding...has now become staple fashion in Italy, France and America."
156. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-156)**
Larkin, Kathy. "Fashion". *1979 Collier's Yearbook Covering the Year 1978*. Crown-Collier Publishing Company. pp. 251â252\. "...Saint Laurent...confirmed huge shoulders, puffed sleeves to emphasize width further..."
157. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-157)**
Morris, Bernadine (30 August 1981). ["The Ultimate Luxury"](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/30/magazine/the-ultimate-luxury.html). *The New York Times*. p. 206. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "Saint Laurent emphasized suits that were squared at the top and tapering to the hem, like a triangle standing on its point."
158. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-158)**
Donovan, Carrie (31 March 1985). ["Fashion: Feminine Flourishes"](https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/31/magazine/fashion-feminine-flourishes.html). *The New York Times*. p. 80. Retrieved 9 March 2022. "Karl Lagerfeld..., Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro and Hubert de Givenchy...continued with their versions of the rather aggressive broad-shouldered silhouette..."
159. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-159)**
Hyde, Nina S. (21 September 1978). ["Saint Laurent: On the Scent of a New 'Seduction'"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/09/21/saint-laurent-on-the-scent-of-a-new-seduction/8a19f270-4c0b-4dbd-ab8d-2182863ed7f8/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 3 December 2021. "His classics,...he says, 'are the modern things and they are for the future. They are now as good as they can be....The basic things have been made. Now we can stop'."
160. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-160)**
Russell, Mary (8 April 1979). ["Fashion/Beauty Fallout from Paris"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/08/archives/fashionbeauty-fallout-from-paris-fashionbeauty.html). *The New York Times*. p. SM19. Retrieved 3 March 2022. "Yves Saint Laurent has retreated into an autocritical contemplation of his years as the established 'No. 1' of Paris fashion. These days, he is creating refined and rethought versions of his legendary look."
161. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-161)**
Donovan, Carrie (6 May 1979). ["American Designers Come of Age"](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/06/archives/fashion-view-american-designers-come-of-age-fashion.html). *The New York Times*. p. 254. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "...Saint Laurent may have reached the point where he feels that he has made his basic contribution to fashion and that now, like Chanel who kept on and on with her famous suit â he wants to reinforce his legend."
162. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-162)**
[Hyde, Nina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hyde "Nina Hyde") (6 December 1983). ["YSL"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/06/ysl/0952dbbf-dee8-479e-8019-5da58b852276/). *The Washington Post*. Retrieved 7 March 2022. "Saint Laurent says the day of big fashion changes is over. What he cares about is refining the classic, the basics, perfecting what he has already put into the fashion vernacular."
163. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-163)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 March 1986). "Bright Spring Fashion Takes a Brave New Direction". *Details*. Vol. IV, no. 8. New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp. p. 90. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "Yves Saint Laurent, the acknowledged king of the status quo in Europe, may have been a revolutionary in his early days...Now, however, St. Laurent has imposed a paralyzing primness...that suggests a retreat to the philistine cathedral of acceptable good taste."
164. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_\(designer\)#cite_ref-164)**
Cunningham, Bill (1 March 1988). "Fashionating Rhythm". *Details*. Vol. VI, no. 8. New York, NY: Details Publishing Corp. p. 121. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0740-4921](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0740-4921). "The saddest moment of the spring ready-to-wear collections was the hackneyed offering of Yves Saint Laurent. What a pathetic decline for the former king of world fashion, who dominated design for...twenty years. One couldn't believe that the same man was responsible for what was paraded before the buyers and press. The loss of Saint Laurent's legendary color mixing, the rehash of decade-old designs, the afterthought accessories, left the audience confounded. One wanted to believe that Saint Laurent was not involved....\[H\]e appeared to have lost a very rare gift â his creative talent."
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- ["All About Yves"](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june02/yves.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130504175857/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/jan-june02/yves.html) 4 May 2013 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") â Jim Lehrer 16 January 2002 By Jessica Moore
- ["Yves Saint Laurent announces retirement"](https://web.archive.org/web/20050319183624/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/01/07/ysl.retires/) â CNN 7 January 2002
- ["All About Yves: As the incomparable Yves Saint Laurent celebrates his 40th anniversary as a couturier, the world salutes his genius."](https://web.archive.org/web/20000817203312/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980803/the_arts.fashion.all_abo12.html) â Julie K.L. Dam, *Time* magazine, 3 August 1998. |
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