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Yves Saint Laurent, the French appearance artisan who created a adventurous new dress cipher for women during the feminist anarchy of the 1970s and helped barrage the era of the celebrity artisan with his adult lifestyle, died Sunday at 71.
["620.8"]The artisan died at his Paris home afterward a connected illness, Pierre Berge, his longtime acquaintance and business partner, told the Associated Press.
Yves Saint Laurent CEO Valerie Hermann on Monday declared the appearance abode in Paris as "very admiring of the affections of the day."
"The abode is actual calm today to pay homage," she added.
She declared Saint Laurent as "the best important artisan of the 20th century. He invented so abounding codes of avant-garde elegance. He watched so abundant change in society. He's added than our civic treasure."
She added: "So abounding of the codes of our cast that he invented, like the tuxedo, are still alive."
Also Monday, a account by Pierre Bergé from the Yves Saint Luarent foundation in Paris said the burying will be captivated Thursday afternoon at the Saint-Roch abbey in Paris.
President Nicolas Sarkozy is accepted to arise the ceremony, the account said.
Saint Laurent will afresh "be incinerated and his ashes will be kept in a burying in the Gardens of Majorelle" (in Marrakech). Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent had bought the Gardens of Majorelle in 1980.
From the alpha of his career at 21, aback he replaced his mentor, Christian Dior, as arch artisan of the couture abode of Dior in Paris, Saint Laurent crafted a avant-garde attending for women that set a new standard.
He was the aboriginal to accomplish pants and pantsuits the basal pieces of a woman's wardrobe, accomplishing it in a way that conveyed femininity, aplomb and style. In adverse for evening, he styled arduous blouses, flounced skirts and a carnal cape beat over bald beef that he abundantly alleged "le smoking."
"The chat 'seduction' has replaced the chat 'elegance' in fashion," a French television analyst arise in 1967, about Saint Laurent's aftereffect on the industry.
The French designer's allowance for redefining French couture was credible in a distinct dress he showed in his aboriginal accumulating for Dior in 1957. A "trapeze" style, it fell in apart folds from the bond to the hem with no padding, no whalebone construction, no corseting. The accessible appearance and apart fit were younger, freer than anyone anticipation of as haute couture, a apple bedeviled by designers in their 70s.
For the aboriginal decade of his career in fashion, Saint Laurent connected to affright audiences with his innovations -- a Navy peacoat, a "beatnik" motorcycle jacket, a dress that looked like a Piet Mondrian painting.
His designs were "the antipode of the haute-couture school, with its apriorism of buttressing and acclimation the woman's silhouette," wrote Alicia Drake in "The Admirable Fall," her book about French appearance during Saint Laurent's acceleration to fame.
At the top of his anatomy in the 1970s, Saint Laurent had accumulated a appearance authority that included a couture and ready-to-wear division, acknowledged perfumes starting with Rive Gauche, and licensing agreements that put his name on sunglasses, hosiery and added than 100 added products. His estimated ceremony take-home pay was about $4 million.
As generally as he was declared a genius, however, Saint Laurent was declared as a addled man who struggled with analytic depression, alcoholism and biologic addiction. At low points, starting in the 1970s, he was hospitalized, absolved alone connected abundant to baby-sit his latest appearance appearance and afresh aerated aback to confinement. His affecting problems worsened afterwards on.
He portrayed himself as a adversity artisan while his business associate, Berge, approved to accomplish ablaze of it. Saint Laurent "was built-in with a afraid breakdown," Berge said.
Shy and illusive, 6 anxiety 2 and awfully thin, Saint Laurent looked like a angular buck through the aboriginal decade of his career. He had confused to Paris in the aboriginal 1950s to abstraction appearance at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale, the academy overseen by French designers. He captured aboriginal absorption by acceptable a architecture antagonism sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat in 1954, with his account of a dress with one apparent shoulder.
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After a few months in school, he was alien to Dior, who offered him a job as an abettor at Dior in 1955. Two years afterwards he was Dior's architecture assistant. Aback Dior died accidentally of a affection advance in 1957, a four-person aggregation replaced him. Saint Laurent did best of the designing.
"I was in a accompaniment of complete bliss advancing that aboriginal collection," Saint Laurent recalled in a 1991 account with Le Figaro. "I knew I was activity to become famous."
As abruptly as he was appointed at Dior, he was absolved in 1960. Abode admiral said he was unfit for the pressures of the job. He had been drafted into the French army that year and was ailing afterwards a breakdown during basal training.
Rumors were that it was not so abundant his airiness as his appearance designs, abounding of them too abolitionist a abandonment from the Dior image, that led to his dismissal.
The afterward year, with the advice of Berge, an active agent who was by afresh his lover, Saint Laurent sued for aperture of arrangement and was awarded added than $100,000 in a acknowledged break from Dior. The abrupt beverage of banknote afflicted his career and his life. He was on his way to superstar acclaim and to a accessible attempt with addiction.
In 1961 he opened his own couture house. Several years later, he added a ready-to-wear division, adapting his appearance to banal accouterment that awash for a atom of the bulk of his couture. Suddenly his characterization was affordable to abounding added women.
In 1966 he opened his aboriginal ready-to-wear boutique, an addition that was anon apish by designers in Milan, Paris and New York. His aboriginal shop, on the Rue de Tournon abreast the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, agitated his accouterment collections as able-bodied as hats and handbags he advised and adornment by his acquaintance Paloma Picasso.
With Berge in allegation of the business side, licensing agreements began rolling in. By 1980 it had developed into a $200-million analysis in his empire.
His bifold accommodation in Paris, with its Art Deco accoutrement and an art accumulating that included works by Picasso and Matisse, was featured in bright magazines. He and Berge additionally aggregate a Normandy chateau, a New York accommodation and a abode in Marrakech, Morocco.
He activated the backbone of his position as the acclaimed "prince of French fashion" aback he launched his aboriginal men's fragrance, Kouros, in 1971. The full-page ad featured Saint Laurent in the buff, cutting alone his shoulder-length brownish hair, his abbreviate down of a bristles and his metal-frame glasses.
"He told me he capital to actualize a scandal," the columnist Jeanloup Sieff recalled of the portrait.
With visions of hippies and annual accouchement lingering, Saint Laurent's nude arena was not absolutely antisocial. Still, a cardinal of appearance magazines banned to run the ad. Any that did helped authorize Saint Laurent as the industry's best affable maverick. The ad positioned "Yves the being as Yves the product," Drake wrote.
The appearance columnist was bugged and followed "YSL" to discos in Paris and New York, with his associates of models and muses in tow. He was apparent with Andy Warhol, Russian ballerina Rudolph Nureyev and added artists who were as acclaimed in their way as he was in his.
He generally declared himself to be a lover of women who capital to accomplish them attending beautiful. In the aboriginal 1970s, aback women were blame acceptable boundaries, he began to architecture collections with them in mind. His carnival jackets and carnival mini-dresses now assume to be a tongue-in-cheek arresting to women that he was on their wavelength.
The pants and jackets that he fabricated the centermost of his daytime attending bound became a compatible for able women breaking into careers still bedeviled by men. Abounding offices banned women from cutting pants to work.
"Today it seems normal, but afresh it was scandalous," wrote Suzy Menkes, Paris-based appearance editor of the International Herald Tribune, in a book of tributes to Saint Laurent on his 40th ceremony in fashion. "Hotels and restaurants wouldn't let you in," Menkes recalled of women who wore pants to dinner.
Saint Laurent's appropriately adventurous black clothes batten to addition development in women's lives. As they began to aboveboard booty the advance in adventurous pursuits, he outfitted them for the venture. Transparent blouses, annoying abbreviate skirts and glassy tuxedos played up the concrete differences, and agnate animal appetites, of women and men.
He additionally alien a menswear division, one that accustomed men the aforementioned appearance abandon that his women's collections did. He styled paisley shirts and clover blazers in the '60s, caftans in the '70s and white linen apparel afterwards that, all of which he wore.
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Other designers affected his best account as fast as he produced them. Saint Laurent "is the best affecting artisan I've anytime seen," Women's Abrasion Daily administrator John Fairchild said in Newsweek in 1975.
For the aperture of his aboriginal U.S. bazaar on Madison Avenue in New York in 1968, he wore a paisley Cossack shirt and a avalanche of gold chains on his hip-huggers. He was amidst by the acclaimed women he dressed -- Lauren Bacall and Maria Callas, Paloma Picasso and Catherine Deneuve.
The aperture fabricated appearance news, and the band of the celebrity artisan was buried on U.S. soil. American designers Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and others were anon fabricated in the aforementioned mold.
More than already as he rose to prominence, Saint Laurent's claimed problems threatened to topple his career.
In 1976, he suffered a above affecting breakdown and was hospitalized.
Rumors were that he was demography tranquilizers with quarts of alcohol. In a berserk burst, however, he advised one of his best acknowledged couture collections.
Ballet Russe was a Russian-inspired amazing of gold brocades, fur trims and cottony embroideries in the "haute hippie" spirit of the time -- and it fabricated front-page news.
"After abounding years of bloodless fashion, absurdity was aback in style," Bernardine Morris, who was afresh a appearance biographer for the New York Times, said in a afterwards interview. The accumulating afflicted designers the apple over, she said.
One year afterwards his Russian triumph, Saint Laurent presented addition arresting collection, this one with a Chinese-dynasty theme.
Satin kimonos and Mandarin-collared tunics were a commencement to a aroma he was about to launch, Opium.
His problems with biologic addiction put a adverse circuit on his best of aroma name.
At the barrage party, a Chinese American accumulation protested, forth with anti-drug activists. It became a best-seller.
For all his brittle aura, Drake wrote, "few bodies saw the beaming appetite and agitated adroitness that was additionally Saint Laurent."
He was built-in Aug. 1, 1936, in Oran, Algeria. His father, Charles, a affluent advocate and allowance broker, and his mother, Lucienne, were French citizens in the North African country, which was afresh a French colony. He additionally had a sister, Brigitte.
As a boy, he spent hours at home creating a miniature amphitheater with abstracts he dressed in apparel cut from his mother's old clothes.
After alone one appellation in appearance academy in Paris, his ancestor helped align for him to appearance his sketches to Michel de Brunhoff, editor of French Vogue. That led Saint Laurent to Christian Dior, who assassin the advanced artisan in 1954 and anon began to accredit to him as the dauphine. "Yves is my heart, my brain," Dior said.
From that abstracted beginning, Saint Laurent gradually was affected by the pressures and demands of his career. His longtime assistants, Loulou de la Falaise and Ann Marie Munoz, fabricated no abstruse of their role in designing his ready-to-wear collections, based on the antecedent season's couture.
"Saint Laurent is on a appearance sabbatical," wrote Hebe Dorsey, appearance editor of the International Herald Tribune in 1979. It became a alternating affair in reviews.
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Saint Laurent was in such breakable bloom that he took his bows clutching a hot-water canteen afterwards one appearance and did not arise at all afterwards another. While his business affiliation with Berge continued, they were no best a adventurous couple. Rumors of alcoholic rages persisted, according to Drake's book.
The company's business problems began to accomplish headlines. Boutiques closed, licenses were cut from added than 100 to 15, and Saint Laurent alleged Alber Elbaz, alien to best U.S. women, to architecture the ready-to-wear collection.
In 1993, Berge was answerable with cabal trading afterwards the aggregation was acquired by biologic behemothic Sanofi for $650 million.
The agreement and timing of the accord aloft suspicions, and a badge analysis led to a $3-million accomplished for Berge; the bulk was bargain to $1 million.
In 1999, the Saint Laurent characterization was purchased again, for $1 billion, this time by Francois Pinault, admiral of Pinault-Printemps-Redoute.
Pinault awash the bartering arm of the business to Gucci Accumulation IV, whose artistic director, Tom Ford, took over as artisan of Saint Laurent ready-to-wear. Pinault retained ascendancy of YSL couture, and Saint Laurent connected to architecture it.
In 2002 Saint Laurent arise that he would retire and abutting his couture house. He reportedly had affected his addictions and seemed to be in acceptable health.
But he acquainted alienated from the industry he had disqualified for so long.
"I am acutely appreciative that women of the apple over today abrasion pantsuits, pea jackets and arroyo coats," he said at his retirement account conference. "In abounding means I feel that I accept created the apparel of the abreast woman.
"I accept grappled with anguish, and I accept been through arduous hell," he said. "I accept accepted those capricious accompany we alarm tranquilizers and drugs."
He additionally had adored one of every account he designed, forth with sketches, which were housed in an annal in Paris beneath climate-controlled conditions, as a analysis centermost for architecture students.
Several weeks afterwards he arise his retirement, Saint Laurent staged a appearance attendant of his assignment at the Centre Pompidou, the abreast art building in Paris. An army of acclaimed models gave new activity to 300 iconic creations.
Reviewing the appearance for the Herald Tribune, Menkes alleged absorption to his alone faculty of color, "mixes of old rose and hyacinth" in one outfit, "orange, amethyst and asparagus green" in addition and declared him the greatest active appearance designer.
Some of the colors seemed aggressive by the paintings by adept artists that abounding Saint Laurent's Paris duplex.
It was a admirable afterpiece to a career that, alike in its crumbling years, included a attendant display of Saint Laurent designs at New York's Metropolitan Building of Art in 1983, the aboriginal of its affectionate for a active appearance designer.
Times agents writers Geraldine Baum and Achrene Sicakyuz in Paris contributed to this report.
mary.rourke@latimes.com
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