The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé

The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé
Title The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé PDF eBook
Author Robert Murphy
Publisher
Total Pages 286
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN

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Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge amassed this collection together before the Saint Laurent's death in 2008. The works, which had adorned their Paris flats, the Chateau Gabriel in Normandy and their home in Morocco, include antiquities, Old Master and 19th-century paintings and drawings, Art Deco pieces and European furniture and art."

The Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Berge Collection

The Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Berge Collection
Title The Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Berge Collection PDF eBook
Author Christiane de Nicolay-Mazery
Publisher Flammarion
Total Pages 332
Release 2009-11-17
Genre Art
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A photographic record of the major pieces from the collection of Yves St Laurent and Pierre Bergé in their homes before being sold in Paris on 23 February 2009 after the death of St Laurent. A complete catalogue of the items and the prices when auctioned by Christies, France is included-- Cataloguer's note.

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent
Title Yves Saint Laurent PDF eBook
Author Roxanne Lowit
Publisher National Geographic Books
Total Pages 0
Release 2020-03-10
Genre Design
ISBN 0500023034

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Yves Saint Laurent is a name synonymous with style, elegance, and high fashion. When he came on the scene at Dior and then started his own line, he quickly changed the way people regarded haute couture and the world of fashion itself. He revolutionized women’s evening wear when he introduced Le Smoking, a woman’s tuxedo, and made couture accessible to a younger generation. Yves Saint Laurent is Roxanne Lowit’s personal photographic history of Saint Laurent, the man and the fashion, from 1978, the year she first met him, to the last show he gave in 2002. With contributions from YSL’s muses and admirers, including Catherine Deneuve, Betty Catroux, Lucie de la Falaise, Pat Cleveland, and Valerie Steele, this reduced format hardcover represents the backstage experience at YSL’s shows as Lowit saw them herself. Whether surrounded by beautiful models or peeking at the catwalk from the wings, every moment was a magnificent photo opportunity. Lowit shares magical moments of YSL with the world—intimate, social, absorbed in fashion—and creates a unique portrait of this towering figure of postwar couture.

The Beautiful Fall

The Beautiful Fall
Title The Beautiful Fall PDF eBook
Author Alicia Drake
Publisher Back Bay Books
Total Pages 370
Release 2009-02-28
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0316068926

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A comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent. In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion's most beloved luminaries - Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant terrible, and Karl Lagerfeld, the flamboyant freelancer with a talent for reinvention - and they divided Paris into two fabulous halves. Their enduring rivalry is chronicled in this dazzling exposè of an era: of social ambitions, shared obsessions, and the mesmerizing quest for beauty. "Deliciously dramatic... The Beautiful Fall crackles with excitement."-New York Times Book Review "Fascinating." -New York Times "Addictive." -Philadelphia Inquirer "It's like US Weekly, 1970s style." -Gotham "A story constructed as exquisitely as a couture dress. . . . It moves stylishly forward, with frequent over-the-shoulder glances at some very dishy background." -Boston Globe

Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion

Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion
Title Yves Saint Laurent: A Moroccan Passion PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bergé
Publisher Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages 0
Release 2014-09-16
Genre Design
ISBN 9781419713491

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In this facsimile of a handwritten leather-bound journal, Pierre Bergé, the longtime partner of Yves Saint Laurent, remembers their life together In this handwritten, personal memoir, Pierre Bergé recalls his life with Yves Saint Laurent in Morocco. He remembers their arrival in Marrakech in 1966, their first home purchased together, and their exploration of Morocco and its fascinating light. He remembers friends--Loulou de La Falaise, Fernando Sánchez, Andy Warhol, Betty Catroux--who, like them, chose to live in Morocco, or who accompanied them on their adventure. He awakens the past with personal photographs, many published for the first time, and drawings and watercolors by Lawrence Mynott that evoke the magic of Morocco. This moving, intimate book, bound to resemble a leather journal, offers a rare glimpse into the personal life of the celebrated designer, revealing how Morocco's vibrant culture and extraordinary landscapes inspired some of YSL's greatest collections.

Loulou & Yves

Loulou & Yves
Title Loulou & Yves PDF eBook
Author Christopher Petkanas
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Total Pages 512
Release 2018-04-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1250161428

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No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss Christopher Petkanas’s exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent. Dauntless, “in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty-four, as the “highest of haute bohemia,” a feckless adventuress in the art of living—and the one person Yves Saint Laurent could not live without. Yves was the most influential designer of his times; possibly also the most neurasthenic. In an exquisitely intimate, sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, Loulou was his creative right hand, muse, alter ego and the virtuoso behind all the flamboyant accessories that were a crucial component of the YSL “look.” For thirty years, until his retirement in 2002, Yves relied on Loulou to inspire him, make him laugh and talk him off the ledge—the enchanted formula that brought him from one historic collection to the next. Yves’s many tributes shape Loulou’s memory, as if everything there was to know about this fugitive, Giacometti-like figure could be told by her clanking bronze cuffs, towering fur toques, the turquoise boulders on her fingers and her working friendship with the man who put women in pants. But another, darker story lifts the veil on Loulou, a classic “number two” with a contempt for convention, and exposes the underbelly of fashion at its highest level. Behind Yves’s encomiums are a pair of aristocrat parents—Loulou’s shiftless French father and menacingly chic English mother—who abandoned her to a childhood of foster care and sexual abuse; Loulou’s recurring desperation to leave Yves and go out on her own; and the grandiose myths surrounding her family. Loulou felt that her life had been kidnapped by the operatic workings of the House of Saint Laurent, and in her last years faced financial ruin. Loulou & Yves unspools an elusive fashion idol—nymphomaniacal, heedless and up to her bracelets in coke and Boizel champagne—at the core of what used to be called “le beau monde.”

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent
Title Yves Saint Laurent PDF eBook
Author Alice Rawsthorn
Publisher
Total Pages 446
Release 1996
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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