The Saint #27: Yves Saint Laurent Mystery Cache
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The Saint #27: Yves Saint Laurent


Yves Saint Laurent, in full Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint Laurent, was born August 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria and died June 1, 2008, in Paris, France.

Saint Laurent was a French fashion designer noted for his popularization of women’s trousers for all occasions.

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After completing secondary education in Oran, Algeria, Saint Laurent left for Paris, France to pursue a career in designing theatrical costumes and women’s fashions. He attended fashion school for a short time and he won first prize in an international contest. When a Vogue magazine executive showed Christian Dior some of Saint Laurent’s fashion sketches, he was hired immediately as Dior’s assistant. He was 17 at the time.
As Dior’s protégé, Saint Laurent was named the head of the House of Dior after Dior’s sudden death in 1957. Following the “little-girl” look and the A-line silhouette, he introduced more sophisticated, longer skirts and, in 1959, drastically shortened skirts. In 1960 he introduced the chic beatnik look of turtlenecks and black leather jackets edged with fur.

After induction into the French army in 1960, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous collapse and was replaced at the House of Dior by designer Marc Bohan. In 1962 Saint Laurent opened his own fashion house and quickly emerged as one of the most influential designers in Paris. He popularized trousers for women for both city and country wear. Metallic and transparent fabrics were prominent in his late 1960s collections; in the ’70s, inspired by traditional Russian costume, he introduced the haute peasant look. During that time his enterprises expanded to include ready-to-wear licenses, accessories, household linens, fragrances (notably Y [1964], Rive Gauche [1971], and Opium [1977]), and men’s clothes in addition to his couture business.

In 1983 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City held a retrospective of Saint Laurent’s designs. He sold the ready-to-wear business to Gucci for some $1 billion in 1999 and shut down the couture house when he retired in 2002. In 2007 Saint Laurent was made a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Two years later the art collection he had assembled with his partner, Pierre Bergé, was auctioned in Paris for more than $260 million, a record price for a private art collection. In 2017 a museum dedicated to his work opened in his former haute couture fashion house in Paris and another in a building by architecture firm Studio KO of patterned terra-cotta in Marrakech, Morocco.

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