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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 ...
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 ...
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
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 ...
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 ...
The first SUMO was written by German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton. The book is a monograph that showcases his work in fashion and celebrity photography. Featured portraits include Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke. The book is credited with changing the fortunes of Taschen. [2]
By her second year on the runway, Mulder was modeling for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Christian Lacroix, Versace, and Giorgio Armani.In 1991, she made the first of many appearances on the cover of Vogue and also landed a contract with Guess. [10]
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. [44] Yves Saint Laurent designed the Le Smoking suit and introduced it in 1966, while Helmut Newton's erotized androgynous photographs of the suit made it iconic and a classic. [45]