Download or read book Le studio d Yves Saint Laurent written by Marie-Jéromine Savignon and published by Companyédition Actes Sud/Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Né à Oran en 1936 et décédé à Paris en 2008, Yves Saint Laurent crée sa marque en 1958 avec le soutien de Pierre Bergé. Artiste incontournable du XXe siècle, son nom résonne aujourd'hui pour beaucoup comme celui qui inventa le caban, le trench-coat, la robe Mondrian, le smoking et tailleur-pantalon féminins ou comme celui qui donna à la saharienne un jour nouveau ou encore comme celui qui se distingua grâce à ses fameuses robes transparentes. Premier styliste à faire défiler des mannequins d'origine asiatique et africaine, il travaille en parallèle pour le théâtre et le cinéma. Il est également l'initiateur de la première ligne de prêt-à-porter du nom d'un grand couturier (Rive Gauche), tout en gardant son activité en haute couture. Mais, au-delà de ce que l'on connaît de cet artiste de renom, qui était-il vraiment ? En nous ouvrant les portes du studio de Saint Laurent, l'auteur nous invite au coeur de l'esprit du grand créateur, là où tout s'est joué, où l'oeuvre et l'artiste se sont construits. On y rejoint le couturier au plus intime de sa démarche créatrice. Entrouvrir la porte du studio est le sésame initiatique qui permet d'approcher au plus près le mystère Saint Laurent, tel un lieu sacré où l'on espère apprendre ses sortilèges. Illustré d'une quarantaine de documents inédits, cet ouvrage est une nouvelle manière de découvrir cet homme à travers l'envers du décor.
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent s Studio written by Jéromine Savignon and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Laurent was a key artist of the 20th century. Today to many his name evokes the reefer jacket, the trench-coat, the Mondrian dress, the smoking jacket and feminine trouser suits. He is remembered as the man who gave the safari jacket a new lease of life and as the man who stood out from the rest with his famous transparent dresses. The first fashion designer to parade Asian and African models on the catwalk, he also worked in tandem with the theatre and cinema. Furthermore, he was the first leading couturier to lend his name to a pret-à-porter range, Rive Gauche, while maintaining his haute couture activities. But what do we really know about the man beyond his renown? Here, the author opens up the door to Yves Saint Laurent's studio and invites us into the great creator's nerve centre, where everything took place, where the work and artist became one. Here we see how Saint Laurent set about his creations, the secrets behind his approach, providing a voyage of initiation through his hideaway where the master alchemist shares his secret formulae.
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent written by Jéromine Savignon and published by Abrams Books. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most distinctive and influential designers of the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Saint Laurent takes his place in the pantheon of French couturiers, alongside Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and Jeanne Lanvin. Yves Saint Laurent, the first comprehensive retrospective of his life's work, will accompany an exhibition of some 250 garments from the collection of the Fondation Pierre Berg -Yves Saint Laurent at the Petit Palais in Paris. From his early days working under Dior and heading the House of Dior after his mentor's death, to the opening of his first pr t a porter shop on the Rive Gauche and the debut of the Le Smoking tuxedo, to the muses he adored, Loulou de la Falaise and Catherine Deneuve among them, this volume reveals the breadth and scope of the designer's entire career. With a preface by Pierre Berg , author Faride Chenoune explores the sources of inspiration that drove Saint Laurent's continuous innovation, drawing upon painting, sculpture, theater, opera, literature, and cinema.
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent written by Alice Rawsthorn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent written by Alice Rawsthorn and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with colorful celebrity anecdotes and behind-the-scenes runway intrigues, this fascinating look at fashion's most famous name reveals how Yves Saint Laurent transformed himself from the shy boy wonder of the House of Dior to the living brand name behind a multi-million-dollar empire. 30 photos.
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent written by Laurence Benaïm and published by Grasset. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Au 5 avenue Marceau, toutes les formes du silence pouvaient s'écouter : le silence des lignes, le silence crème des toiles, le doux silence des ateliers, le silence heureux des mains, le silence minéral de l'attente, quand il n'était pas là, le silence d'un sourire esquissé dans le miroir, la beauté, comme une histoire d'amour entre lui et les mannequins, son studio de création... Et puis le silence de la peur, du doute – son école. J'ai rencontré Yves Saint Laurent en 1986 à travers son métier, et c'est seulement un an plus tard que nous avons été présentés. Publiée en 1993, cette biographie a été rééditée en 2002 lors de la fermeture de la maison Yves Saint Laurent, puis en 2010. Un jour il m'avait lancé: "Mais vous connaissez bien mieux ma vie que moi...." Faux, évidemment. Car écrire la vie de cet homme de son vivant, c'est refuser de tomber dans certains pièges. " Je n'ai jamais cherché à éviter ses zones d'ombres, mais à privilégier sa lumière, ce qui l'a rendu si différent. Yves Saint Laurent est à la fois l’astéroïde et le noyau d’une vieille comète, une planète monstre ayant modifié la perception du système solaire de la mode. Du soleil cher à Chanel, et de l’étoile - talisman de Dior, Yves Saint Laurent a fait une boule de feu, il est ce météore qui continue à éclairer la galaxie, bien après sa mort. » L.B. Le 1er juin 2008, Yves Saint Laurent laissait derrière lui bien plus qu’un nom et une maison de couture... A l’occasion du dixième anniversaire de sa mort, Laurence Benaïm nous confie l’édition définitive de sa légendaire biographie : l’ascension d’un jeune garçon né en 1936 à Oran, qui s’écriait à l’âge de treize ans : « Un jour, j’aurai mon nom gravé en lettres de feu sur les Champs-Elysées. » L’itinéraire d’un peintre de la vie moderne, oeil à vif, traversant les époques pour en habiller l’ambiguïté dans un parfum de luxe, de vertiges et de décadence. La vie d’un homme libre, provocateur, secret, malheureux, génial, toujours échappé vers d’autres vies... La biographie du dernier des classiques. Le roman de la mode de 1958 aux débuts des années 2000.
Download or read book Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume written by Yves Saint Laurent and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1983 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Retrospective exhibition of twenty-five years of ... [Yves Saint Laurent's] work ... This book, published in connection with the exhibition, features over two hundred of Saint Laurent's couture designs, more than seventy in full color ... Also included is a fully illustrated survey of Saint Laurent's work photographed in black and white by Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland, supplemented by historically important photographs published in the fashion magazines of the era taken by such renowned photographers as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, Neal Barr, and Bill King"--Cover.
Download or read book The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Berg written by Robert Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk written by Olivier Flaviano and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A photographic encyclopaedia of one of the 20th century's greatest creators' The Business of Fashion Founded by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1961, shortly after the young couturier left his post at the helm of Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent would soon become one of the most successful and influential haute couture houses in Paris. Introducing Le Smoking, the first tuxedo suit for women, in 1966, Saint Laurent also presented iconic art-inspired creations, from Mondrian dresses to precious Van Gogh embroidery and the famous Ballets Russes collection. This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Yves Saint Laurent, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with a gallery of carefully curated catwalk images. These showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway. A rich reference section concludes the book.
Download or read book Loulou Yves written by Christopher Petkanas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book Les Paradis secrets d Yves Saint Laurent et de Pierre Berg written by Valérie Malfoy and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé ont assemblé l’une des plus importantes collections d’art dans le monde pendant plus de quarante ans : des tableaux (Goya, Mondrian, Matisse, Léger...), d’innombrables objets d’art et de meubles d’Eileen Gray, Pierre Chareau, Pierre Legrain... Chacune de leurs résidences (Marrakech, Tanger, Paris, New York, Deauville) est une œuvre d’art. On y découvre la collision d’objets et de périodes chez Saint Laurent rue de Babylone, la fantaisie proustienne au château Gabriel en Normandie... Depuis la mort de Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé a décidé de mettre en vente la totalité de ses collections. Une vente historique et la fin d’une histoire mémorable. Pierre Bergé nous ouvre les portes de ses collections et de ses maisons pour une dernière fois. Robert Murphy raconte chaque collection et chaque maison, Ivan Terestchenko les photographie. Peter Saville, l’un des plus grands graphistes d’aujourd’hui, assure la direction artistique de l’ouvrage. C’est la première fois que ces maisons et ces collections fantastiques sont photographiées ensemble dans un seul livre. Par ailleurs ce livre explore l’évolution de goût des deux hommes à travers des interviews avec Pierre Bergé, des décorateurs et des marchands d’art.
Download or read book Studio KO written by Karl Fornier and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut monograph on the highly sought-after French architecture duo renowned for a signature aesthetic infused with clean lines and raw minimalism. Founded by French architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty in 2000, Studio KO has quickly secured its status in the world of architectural design. A refreshing modernist aesthetic imbued with subtle references to history and culture defines their work. While Marty and Fournier are best known for their minimalist villas set in awe-inspiring landscapes, recent commissions also include restaurants, boutiques, and hotels across New York, Paris, and London. The first monograph dedicated to Studio KO, this beautifully illustrated book spotlights a diverse array of their work, from private residences in breathtaking scenery, ranging from the Moroccan mountains to Provence and Brittany in France, to the highly anticipated Yves Saint Laurent Museum, due to open in Marrakech in 2017. Boasting never-before-seen architectural plans, personal photos, and sumptuous photographs of finished spaces, this book offers a fascinating look at the most in-demand architectural designers of today.
Download or read book Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent written by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent moved to Paris when he was 18, and only three years later he was handpicked by Christian Dior to take the reins as designer of his fashion house. Over time, Saint Laurent resurrected haute couture from the casual mores that predominated in the 1960s, but also offered chic cachet to ready-to-wear clothing. He was among the earliest of designers to incorporate non-European references into his work, and in 1983 he became the first living designer to be feted with a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent is a stellar volume in the series from the editors of British Vogue, featuring 20,000 words of original biography and history and studded with more than 80 images from their unique archive of images taken by leading photographers.
Download or read book Requiem pour Yves Saint Laurent written by Laurence Benaïm and published by Grasset. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Depuis sa disparition le 1er juin 2008, Yves Saint Laurent n’a jamais été aussi vivant. La dispersion de la collection de tableaux et d’œuvres d’art qui faisaient partie de la collection Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Bergé, est devenue la « vente du siècle ». L’exposition que lui consacre le Petit Palais en mars 2010, n’en finit pas de consacrer le couturier, autant que le génie de la couleur irréductible à l’histoire de la mode dont il a provoqué toutes les ruptures. Pourtant, sous les honneurs, la mémoire n’est-elle pas nue ? Premier couturier à être célébré de son vivant (Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1983), premier à créer sa propre fondation, riche de milliers de modèles et d’accessoires, il est aussi le premier à interroger la mémoire d’un monde qui s’enfuit. Celui des chocs et des liaisons dangereuses, celui des provocations sublimées par la volupté dont ses robes étaient les maîtresses. Au-delà des lots, des cartels, des records, que restera-t-il de l’homme dont les derniers témoins sont comme les figurants d’une histoire qui se prolonge dans le cœur de ceux qui ne l’ont pas connu ? Ce livre, en forme de témoignage, est aussi une collection de portraits-souvenirs, entre Paris et Marrakech, le Palace et le 5 avenue Marceau, fragments tour à tour rouges et rose, venus redonner à cette présence-absence, un souffle, une respiration recouverte pourtant, telle Orphée, d’un voile noir. » Laurence Benaïm
Download or read book Yves St Laurent written by Yves Saint Laurent and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the myriad of models and photographers who work with him, Yves Saint Laurent is not just an arbiter of fashion -- he is fashion. No other designer possesses his powerful combination of creativity, vision, and, personal style. The world's most talented photographers and prestigious models grace the pages of this classic volume that celebrates Yves Saint Laurent's illustrious career, reprinted in a smaller format on the eve of his fortieth anniversary. From pret-a-porter to haute couture, from the runway to the studio to the earth's most exotic settings, images from nearly fifty photographers -- including Richard Avedon, Horst, Peter Lindbergh, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Snowdon, and Bruce Weber -- bring Yves Saint Laurent's renowned creations to glorious life.
Download or read book Sheer Yves Saint Laurent written by Émilile Hammen and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing more than sixty pieces from the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Museum of Lace and Fashion collections, Sheer: Yves Saint Laurent highlights the designer's mastery over transparent fabrics.
Download or read book Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent written by Emma Baxter-Wright and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An enigmatic, daring and astonishingly creative designer, Yves Saint Laurent is credited with the elevation of haute couture to fine art, turning the fashion show into a spectacle of breathtaking proportions, and revolutionizing the gendered norms of womenswear. Describing Saint Laurent's beginnings in Algeria as a precocious boy making miniature garments from fabric scraps, Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent depicts, in beautiful photographs and insightful text, the designer's ascent from fashion student to the right-hand of Christian Dior. Going on to found his own fashion house in 1961, Saint Laurent created his famous 'le smoking' trouser suit, brought the leather jacket to the mainstream and astounded the fashion world with his blend of elegance and artistic drama. Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is a stylish gift for any lover of fashion.
