Binding: Hardcover
Description: The world's leading authorities on fashion and design celebrate the 60th anniversary of YSL's first runway presentation with a lexicon that includes many images from the designer's extraordinary archives. Yves Saint Laurent (1936 2008) is credited with reviving French haute couture in the 1960s with making ready - to - wear reputable and with using non - European cultural references. In addition to the kaleidoscope of images in this book a coterie of tastemakers have supplied listings that encompass YSL's style inspirations (C is for Costumes as exem - plified by the Russian theme of the famed autumn - winter 1976 77 collection; T is for Tuxedo which the designer initially referenced with his 1965 Le Smoking ) and important facets of his life (J is for Jardin Majorelle the garden of the couturier's para - disiacal retreat in Marrakech; R is for Rive Gauche the bohemian chic neighborhood of Paris where the YSL boutique is situated and also the name of the house's famous perfume launched in 1970). This distillation and celebration of the designer's life reveals the inner world of a twentieth - century master.
Title: Ysl Lexicon An Abc Of The Fashion Life And Inspirations Of Yves Saint Laurent
Author(s): Janson Stephan
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Barcode: 9780847867127
Pages: 280 Pages, 225 Colour Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/29/2022
Category: Fashion & Textiles: Design