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«Yves Saint Laurent - Style & Design Legacy»

«Yves Saint Laurent - Style & Design Legacy». «Les modes passent le style est éternel - Fashions pass, style is eternal». Yves Saint Laurent - style. A style based on strong recognisable signs Working with codes is in the heart of actual fashion.

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«Yves Saint Laurent - Style & Design Legacy»

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  1. «Yves Saint Laurent - Style & Design Legacy»

  2. «Les modes passent le style est éternel - Fashions pass, style is eternal»

  3. Yves Saint Laurent - style • A style based on strong recognisable signs • Working with codes is in the heart of actual fashion

  4. The inventor of the modern language of fashion • The modern femininity • The modern wardrobe • The notion of individualism • The interaction between creation and street style

  5. To underline the complexity of modern femininity • Women want to express the various aspects of their femininity: seduction and an active role in society • The YSL answer is Ambiguity with the mixing of genders • He has invented the « In Between Spirit » : androgyny, the mix of bourgeois and popular style, the masculine-feminine style mix, the sport and urban attitude mix …

  6. Ambiguity Strong as a Man Charming as a Woman Loulou de la Falaise, 1967

  7. AMBIGUITY:To show and to hide at the same time Fall-Winter 1970 Spring-Summer 1968

  8. ANDROGYNY Yves Saint Laurent and his sister. Desert tunique inspired by the Africa Corps uniform. Veruschka, photo of Franco Rubartelli. Vogue, 1968

  9. Betty Catroux, Loulou de la Falaise 1969

  10. MASCULINITY-FEMININITY Spring-Summer 1978 Spring-Summer 1967

  11. SMOCKING A NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE EVENING Fall-Winter 1968 Fall-Winter 1966 Fall-Winter 1996

  12. Functional outfits and uniforms in an elegant translation: Urban navy suit, sport outfit for evening, urban short pants… Spring-Summer 1962 Fall-Winter 1976 Spring-Summer 1971

  13. Fashion and Society • Pierre Bergé: "He turned fashion on its head, making it socially relevant rather than merely aesthetic".

  14. The influence of Pop CultureTo the WWD Magazine, Yves Saint Laurent said in 1965 : "I am fed up doing dresses for blasé rich women”. « J’en avait marre de faire des robes pour des milliardaires blasées » Hippie shock

  15. A style that helps to define your own personality Loulou de la Falaise, hippie chic in 1972 Talitha Getty, Marrakech

  16. BEING ELEGANT AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME Catherine Deneuve Collection Pop, homage to Tom Wesselmann Winter 1966

  17. An unconventional way of doing Haute Couture 26 September 1966: Launch of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, 21 rue de Tournon-Paris

  18. SHOCKING COLORS Fall-Winter 1992 Fall-Winter 2000

  19. NO LITERAL REFERENCES –CROSS REFERENCES IN IMAGINARY TRAVELS Collection Ballets Russes, july 1976

  20. Yves Saint Laurent :A Master for the Fashion World • The impossible legacy ? • The impossible dream: to become as successful as YSL • Every designer has his stylistic heritage in mind as a reference

  21. Albert Elbaz for Lanvin • For Summer 2009: « What we have to do now is make life easier for women ». • He was named AD for Rive Gauche in 1999: "I don't want to do Alber Elbaz for Yves Saint Laurent . I want to do Saint Laurent by Alber Elbaz ». His inspiration: dress up an active woman with trousers.

  22. Albert Elbaz for Lanvin. Summer 2009

  23. MIX MASCULINITY-FEMININITY Yohji Yamamoto Fall-Winter 2008 Bruno Pieters

  24. Détournements - Hijackings • Sport • The Smoking • Underdressed and overdressed

  25. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Summer 2009 Summer 2008

  26. COOL & SOPHISTICATED ATTITUDES Hermès by Jean Paul Gaultier. Fall-Winter 2008

  27. Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière Winter 2007 Winter 2008 Winter 2005

  28. Dries Van Noten Summer 2009

  29. Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci Winter 2008 Winter 2007

  30. Marc Jacobs Resort 2009 Fall-Winter 2007 Resort 2009

  31. Hybridization • Exotism mix • Color mix

  32. Jean Paul Gaultier Summer 2008

  33. John Galliano Summer 2009 Yves Saint Laurent said that John Galliano is interesting «even he is doing things that I can’t admit»

  34. Marc Jacobs Resort 2009 Summer 2009 Resort 2009

  35. YVES SAINT LAURENT: “Elegance is being noticed while wearing a black dress. It’s being at ease. It’s the attitude. It is not wrinkles or white hair that age woman, it is her gestures.”

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