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Examples of Le Smoking in a De Young Museum exhibit.. Le Smoking is a women's tuxedo suit created in 1966 by couturier Yves Saint Laurent. [1] The first suit of its kind to earn attention in the fashion world and in popular culture, it was influenced by the androgynous personal style of Saint Laurent model and muse Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain, [2] [3] as well as the evening dress of ...
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), [1] better known as Yves Saint Laurent (/ ˌ iː v ˌ s æ̃ l ɔː ˈ r ɒ̃ /, also UK: /-l ɒ ˈ-/, US: /-l oʊ ˈ-/, French: [iv sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃] ⓘ) or YSL, was a French fashion designer who, in 1962, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among ...
Louise Vava Lucia Henriette Le Bailly de La Falaise was born on 4 May 1947 [4] [5] in England, the eldest child and only daughter of Alain, Count de La Falaise (1903–1977), a French writer, translator and publisher, and his second wife, the former Maxime Birley (1922–2009), an Anglo-Irish fashion model, whom photographer Cecil Beaton once told, "You are the only English woman I know who ...
Helmut Newton, the German post-war fashion photographer who notoriously posed a model on a bed in a Paris hotel with a saddle on her back, is the focus of a new retrospective in the port city of A ...
The company was founded in 1968 when André Laug (Alsace, 29 December 1931 – Rome, 16 December 1984), a French designer trained in Paris by André Courrèges and Nina Ricci, [1] opened his couture house in Rome, Piazza di Spagna, with the help of Susy Gandini.
In the 1960s, André Courrèges introduced jeans for women, leading to the era of designer jeans. And in 1966, Yves Saint Laurent introduced Le Smoking, a woman's tuxedo intended for formal occasions, [28] famously photographed by Helmut Newton in a manner emphasising the wearer's androgyny and suggesting lesbian overtones. [citation needed]
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the women's liberation movement is likely to have contributed to ideas and influenced fashion designers, such as Yves Saint Laurent. [17] Yves Saint Laurent designed the Le Smoking suit, first introduced in 1966, and Helmut Newton’s eroticized androgynous photographs of it made Le Smoking iconic. [18] Yves ...
Claude Saint-Cyr; Hélène de Saint Lager; Yves Saint Laurent; Jean-Louis Scherrer; Marine Serre; Maxime Simoëns; Dominique Sirop; Martine Sitbon; Hedi Slimane; Ginette Spanier; Franck Sorbier; Sophie Theallet; Éric Tibusch; Dina Tiktiner Viterbo; Dominic Toubeix; Ramdane Touhami; Emanuel Ungaro; Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski; Alexandre Vauthier ...