Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Mondadori, Martina; Janson, Stephan; Arnaud, Claude; Bowles, Hamish; Fine Collins, Amy |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli |
| Date: | 3/29/2022 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
The world’s leading authorities on fashion and design celebrate the 60th anniversary of YSL’s first runway presentation with a lexicon that includes many images from the designer’s extraordinary archives.
YvesSaintLaurent(1936–2008)iscreditedwith revivingFrenchhautecoutureinthe1960s,with makingready-to-wearreputable,andwithusing kaleidoscopeofimagesinthisbook,acoterieof tastemakershavesuppliedlistingsthatencompass YSL’sstyleinspirations(C isforCostumes,asexem-plifiedbytheRussianthemeofthefamedautumn-winter1976–77collection; T isforTuxedo,which thedesignerinitiallyreferencedwithhis1965“Le Smoking”)andimportantfacetsofhislife(J isfor JardinMajorelle,thegardenofthecouturier’spara-disiacal retreat in Marrakech; R is for Rive Gauche, the bohemian, chic neighborhood of Paris where the YSL boutique is situated and also the name of the house’s famousperfumelaunchedin1970).Thisdistillation and celebration of the designer’s life reveals the inner world of a twentieth-century master.
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