Little back round:
Yves Saint Laurent was a European fashion designer born on August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria. As a teen, he left for Paris to work for designer Christian Dior and gained acclaim for his dress designs. In 1966, he launched his own fashion labels, where his adaptations of tuxedos for women garnered him fame. He was the first living designer to receive a solo exhibition in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983. The Designer died in Paris on June 1, 2008 from brain cancer. via: Bio.
On 2002 the now creative director Hedi Slimane decide to changed the maison to Saint Laurent. *
Now let me tell you why I admired Yves so much:
1// In 1950 he sent three designs to a competition made by Secrétariat la de Laine in Paris, that would award him with the recognition of the editor of Vogue back them, Michel de Brunhoff who recommended that he study at L'ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture. And so he did, at the age of seventeen.
2// One year later of the recognition of Secrétariat la de Laine, he try again, this time winning, beating the now creative designer of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld. The Vogue editor present the young designer to Christian Dior giving him a place at his atelier.
3// On 1957 at the surprising dead of the founder, the shy Saint Laurent, is positioned as the creative designer of the maison Dior at the age of twenty one.
4// After being discharged of Dior thank to his controversial "beat" collection, with his business partner and them lover Pierre Bergé he open the Yves Saint Laurent maison. Presenting his first collection Spring Summer on 1962 with a whole new look and creativity of what he have presented before for Dior. Creating the modern silhouette.
5// Le smoking. Do I really need to say something else? Immortalized by one of my favorite photographers Helmut Newton 1966.
6// Rive Gauche. The first collection from his Prêt-á-porter line, he has one of the first designers to create and sell for a bigger market, not only haute couture.
7// On the Sien river store, Rive Gauche he met one of his muses Catherine Deneuve.
8// On the day Gabrielle Chanel died, he presented most polemic collection called "Libération" inspired by the Nazi occupation on France. Bad ass Yves. (We see what you did here).
9// Yves was the first designer who sent down the runway a black race woman called Mounia Orosemane. Thank to that cat walk Mounia land 14 covers and 27 pages on Vogue Paris.
10// January 7 of 2002, Yves retires of the industry.
· It’s a moment caught in time. A mood. A spirit. A scent. The distillation of life as it’s been experienced by all the young who’ve ever lived. loved, laughed, learned in Paris. ·
- YSL, Rive Gauche.
xx
Via: Bio.
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