nemolate unravels the successes and failures of Yves Saint Laurent to the day of his death, July 1, 2008. It is the story of his life, a journey from his native Oran to Paris, as well as a review of the designer’s iconic garments: from the safari jacket to the Mondrian dress. Dive into his distant, artistic and vital sources of inspiration. Yves’ childhood in Algeria certainly marked his style, although the designer also introduced other orientalisms with Chinese, Indian and Japanese influences into his collections. And not only that, he created a new language, a new alphabet, which creators from all over the world have followed to this day.
His undeniable talent caused enmity with other greats such as Christian Dior or Karl Lagerfeld, and led him to a convulsive life. Despite his addictions, he managed to become one of the most relevant fashion designers of the 20th century. It also brought him closer to other names that marked his time: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Ross, Brooke Shields, Ryan O’Neal, Diana Vreeland, Halston, Lauren Bacall, Marisa Berenson, Warren Beatty, Virna Lisi… His everlasting love, Pierre Bergé, accompanied him practically all his life. It was a very conscious, painful and at times destructive relationship, but one that undoubtedly shaped Yves Saint Lauren’s history, as a person and as a brand.
“It changed the way women dress. It empowered them and made them sexy.”
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nemolate. Journalist. Diploma in Information Sciences and Studies in Comparative Literature and Law from the Complutense University of Madrid. With such a resounding and unusual last name, no one in the business knows him by his first name, Luis.
Although he would have liked to have opened his eyes in a Hollywood-style bed in the Naples of his summers and origins, he was born in Madrid in a harsh winter of 1976. At the age of twenty-one he started working in the “Shows”, “Culture” sections and “People” from the newspaper ABC. Over the past twenty-five years the copper has been beaten between those three columns in not a few Herculean works in search of the golden fleece. At the EFE agency, The world, telemadrid, cosmopolitan, lectures, Esquiremad cool festival, The reason Y Hello!where he is currently writing verses about the divine and the human in the so-called “bible of the cuché”.
- Editorial: pinolia
- Mate: 16.50 x 23.50 cm
- Recommended retail price: €19.95
Source: Marie Claire
