1936-2008 Yves Saint Laurent

[Diorette]

French ELLE June 9, 2008


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[taz]

thanks alot Diorette for the amazing homage coverage.
what ever I'd post as tributes to Yves, won't be enough toward this giant.. i can't write enough about him as a human or as an asrtist...
I've posted some amazing pics & articles about Yves in this thread long time ago as tribute & in other threads as well.. they worth checking,...RIP Yves.

 

[Hanne]

May 29 to September 28, 2008

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is currently displaying 145 of Yves Saint Laurent’s best ensembles, in a collaboration with Paris’ Fondation Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

image above and text below from mbam.qc.ca
The exhibition is divided into four main themes:

“The Stroke of a Pencil” where the designer’s idea is followed from the original sketch;
“The Yves Saint Laurent Revolution,” where feminized versions of men’s attire rub shoulders with seductive apparel;
“The Palette,” which shows how traditional rules of colour harmony were reversed in new contrasts inspired by cross-fertilization; and
“Lyrical Sources,” which explores the historical, literary (Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau…) and artistic influences that were interpreted and translated by this genius of couture.

Throughout his career, Yves Saint Laurent examined the work of the great artists of our day, expressing his personal tastes and the paintings he admired by transforming painting into fabric.
Some of his creations reflect the visual sensations of Impressionism, while others liberate the expressive power of some of the great names and movements of modern art: Mondrian and Poliakoff in 1965, the “Pop Art” dresses in 1966, Picasso in 1979 and Braque in 1988.

 

[Hanne]

All images from mbam.qc.ca

Evening Coat; Spring–Summer 1971; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent; Photo Alexandre Guirkinger

Evening Gown, Fall–Winter 1976; Original sketch; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

Cocktail Dress; Spring–Summer 1992; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent; Photo Alexandre Guirkinger

Evening Ensemble, Spring–Summer 1989; Original sketch; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

 

[Hanne]

All images from mbam.qc.ca

Evening Ensemble; Fall–Winter 1990; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent; Photo Alexandre Guirkinger

Evening Gown in Tribute to Tom Wesselmann; Fall–Winter 1966; Original sketch from the collection sketchbook; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

Evening Gown in Tribute to Georges Braque; Spring–Summer 1988; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent; Photo Alexandre Guirkinger

Evening Gown, Fall–Winter 1979; Original sketch; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent

Evening Gown; Fall–Winter 1982; Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent; Photo Alexandre Guirkinger

 

[Hanne]

All images from mbam.qc.ca

Suit – Trousers
1978 Spring/Summer Collection, No. 7
Wool herringbone suit. Crêpe de Chine shirt and belt. Straw boater with taffeta band, metal “snail” stud earrings, leather gloves and open pumps
Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent
Photo Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent

 

[modillustr]

I had a nostalgic wandering on YSL's end of 90's collections.
From F/W 1998 collection, model: Ling Tang.
This is my humble hommage to Monsieur Saint Laurent.
(a larger one by clicking).
If you think it is no the place for this post, I obviously understand that mods delete it.

 

[Ianastar]

I want to run into a boutique and just buy up everything.

I really thought more magazines would be doing some sort of cover/story etc. I need to find that French Elle.

 

[Diorette]

^^ Very nice modillustr.

Maybe you could post it in this thread too:
Legendary Designer Yves Saint Laurent Dies at 71

 

[iluvjeisa]

A couple of images of Yves by Patrick Lichfield - scanned from British Vogue 1969, by me.

 

[iluvjeisa]

Almost forgot this one, same source. Also posted some of the designs of his accompanying this editorial, here:

British Vogue 1969 - Jane Birkin in YSL Rive Gauche

 

[GroovyDolce]

Thanks a lot! Great pics, he and his style are legendary. Does anyone have more pics of YSL in his home during the late 60s early 70s? Also of a male model wearing an YSL safari jacket?

 

[taz]

£300m: Fashion king's art collection in sale of century

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Auction houses go to war for the right to stage the biggest private-owner sale ever
By Andrew Johnson
Sunday, 13 July 2008


AP
Yves Saint Laurent's love of 20th-century art inspired his Mondrian dress

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The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent amassed an art collection that is renowned as one of the most fabulous in private hands. It includes works by Old Masters and contemporary greats, among them Picasso, Mondrian, Warhol, Matisse and Goya, to name just a few.

Now, following his death last month aged 71, Saint Laurent's business partner, former companion and heir, Pierre Bergé – with whom he built the collection – is reported to be considering a massive international sale.
With the collection believed to be worth a staggering £300m, it would be not only the sale of the century, but the biggest private-owner sale ever.
With the glamour surrounding the YSL brand and the vast sums involved, The Art Newspaper reports that the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, have locked horns over which one should handle the sale.
Both houses have apparently "pitched" to M Bergé, who runs his own small auction house in Paris, which is unable to handle the size of the auction.
The paper claims Sotheby's had all but secured the sale in a deal that fell through a month before the designer's death. Christie's quickly stepped in and is believed to be close to clinching the deal. Christie's is helped by the fact that François Pinault, its owner, owned the YSL couture house before Saint Laurent retired in 2002 and it ceased operating.
One of Saint Laurent's most famous designs was inspired by his love of art: the Mondrian dress, which was part of his 1966 Pop Art collection.
Saint Laurent drew up a will with M Bergé saying that the art collection should either be left to the foundation they had created in Paris to preserve his work, or sold, with the proceeds left to the foundation. Although M Bergé, who was the business brains behind YSL for many years, and Saint Laurent were renowned art collectors, little is known about the details of their collection, though it was described by Sotheby's UK chairman, James Stourton, in his 2007 book Great Collectors of Our Time, as a "room of masterpieces".
independent

Christie's Will Sell YSL's Art Collection

[FONT=verdana,sans-serif]By Bloomberg News | July 17, 2008[/FONT]


Christie's International said it will be selling the art collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in Paris in February 2009.
The auction will be held in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates, the Paris auction house owned by the fashion designer's former business partner, Christie's said Wednesday in an e-mailed statement.
The specific date and contents of the sale have yet to be announced, London-based Christie's said.
Saint Laurent died last month, aged 71. He and Mr. Bergé, who co-founded the Yves Saint Laurent couture house in 1961, amassed a collection of artworks that is believed to be worth as much as $599 million, according to the Art Newspaper.
The newspaper said that their collection features works by a range of contemporary artists and old masters that includes Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse, and Goya.
nysun

Yves & Pierre wrote the most perfect scenario for YSL, I mean he retired in the right time with an unforgittable grand & chic celebration, he sold his name to the right group & now it is in safe hands, he created his own museum & now the art collection that they had collected over years is to be sold to preserve his name & legacy forever...
& as Yves once said: " The most important thing is to last."
& he will!
RIP Yves .. love you forever....

 

[iluvjeisa]

Yves Saint Laurent and Angelica Houston - from British Vogue in the fall of 1973.



More Yves from this issue here.

 

[a_brightspot]

such a pretty dress!

RIP Yves Saint Laurent

^i love that picture

cocktail dress from 1967 worn by famous ballerina margot fonteyn
from www.museumofcostume.co.uk/

 

[DosViolines]

Christian Dior Smoke Silk Faille Ballgown
Attributed to Yves Saint Laurent, French, Autumn-Winter 1956
The bodice with low V-neckline draped either side of bustline into self bow knot, three-quarter length kimono sleeve, trapeze skirt with stiffened deliberate one sided central dart, full fitted foundation attached only at front bow knot, four layers of petticoat each with double band of horsehair reinforcement, the outer of organza, the rest tulle, with voluminous stole of full width faille fringed at ends, labeled: Christian Dior/Paris/Automne-Hiver 1956/82373/ and tape label: 82373/S.c.c. Bergdorf Goodman/Robe Musique-de-Nuit-/Bertha. and Made in France.
This dress was photographed for Harper's Bazaar, October 17, 1956 on the model Suzy Parker by Richard Avedon.

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[DosViolines]

Yves Saint Laurent for Dior Leopard Trimmed Suit
French, late 1950s
The sleeveless dress with black silk satin bodice and brushed wool skirt divided by an inverted curvilinear V seam at center front, echoed by two curved tab pockets at hip, the topstitched hem of curvilinear surplice closing aligning with top edge of pockets, crisp bow at left shoulder, asymmetrical leopard collar, long sleeve, dress labeled: Christian Dior/Boutique/Paris/3297/401 and jacket labeled: Christian Dior/Boutique/Paris/330/401.

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[DosViolines]

Lace Cocktail Dress By Dior, Spring/Summer 1960

This strapless, white lace cocktail dress was probably designed by Yves Saint Laurent at Christian Dior for the Spring/Summer collection of 1960. The dress is fitted onto a silk corset and is made from a large-scale floral lace, which is supported by layers of silk and nylon net. Some of the lace pattern has been cut away and then reapplied to the material to give the dress a three-dimensional surface.

The House of Dior often created short evening and cocktail dresses from lace and other delicate materials for their Spring/Summer collections.

A pair of shoes with a similar floral pattern were made by Massaro of Paris to complement the dress.

museums.leics.gov.uk

 

[DosViolines]

Yves Sant Laurent Black Matelasse Cocktail Dress
French, late 1970s
A 1950s inspired bubble dress, the asymmetrical hem gathered up above knee at right front to black satin bow, bordered with black curled ostrich feathers, puff bracelet length sleeves, labeled: Yves Saint Laurent/rive gauche.

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[DosViolines]

Yves Saint Laurent Bikini Evening Dress
French, circa 1966
Of black silk peau de soie, the midriff baring bodice sewn to mimic a pointed scarf draped across front and tied at center back, sewn only to skirt at point at center front, the waistbandless skirt straight, with slight fullness, labeled: Yves Saint Laurent/Paris/Made In France. model no.09912.

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