Actes Sud/fondation Pierre Berga-yves Saint L Yves saint laurent's studio: mirror and secrets, hardcover/yves saint laurent

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The name of Yves Saint Laurent, one of the great fashion designers of the twentieth century, evokes the now-iconic looks he helped popularize as part of the modern woman's wardrobe: the Le Smoking tuxedo jacket, the pea coat, the Mondrian dress, the jumpsuit.

But seven years after Saint Laurent's death, the man himself remains an enigma and a source of fascination (two Yves Saint Laurent biopics were released in 2014).

In Yves Saint Laurent's Studio: Mirror and Secrets , the first book to be published by the Fondation Pierre Berg with Yves Saint Laurent, fashion historian J r mine Savignon invites the reader into the designer's studio, revealing Saint Laurent's approach to fashion and design.

Illustrated with more than 40 previously unpublished photographs, this volume offers a fresh, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the work of this iconic fashion designer.

A precocious talent, Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) started work at the venerable fashion house of Christian Dior at the age of 18.

He started his own design house in 1961 with his partner Pierre Berg .

Saint Laurent was one of the first designers to hire nonwhite models, and the first to lend his name to a ready-to-wear line while maintaining his haute couture business.

He became the first designer to be honored with a Costume Institute retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime, with a 1983 show organized by Diana Vreeland, who called him the Pied Piper of fashion, because whatever he does, women of all ages, from all over the world, follow.