Yves Saint Laurent

by Roxanne Lowit, Pierre Bergé (Introduction)

A dazzling portrait of Yves Saint Laurent and his world of fashion over the last twenty-five years of his career, by legendary pioneer of backstage fashion photography, Roxanne Lowit Yves Saint Laurent is a name synonymous with style, elegance, and high fashion. When he came on the scene at Dior and then started his own line, he quickly changed the way people regarded haute couture and the world of fashion itself. He revolutionized women’s eveningwear when he introduced le smoking , a woman’s tuxedo, and made couture accessible to a younger generation.   Yves Saint Laurent is Roxanne Lowit’s personal photographic history of Saint Laurent, the man and the fashion, from 1978, the year she first met him, to the last show he gave in 2002. With contributions from YSL’s muses and admirers, including Catherine Deneuve, Betty Catroux, Lucie de la Falaise, Pat Cleveland, and Valerie Steele, this book represents the backstage experience at YSL’s shows as Lowit experienced them herself. Whether surrounded by beautiful models or peeking at the catwalk from the wings, every moment was a magnificent photo opportunity. Lowit shares magical moments of YSL with the world–intimate, social, absorbed in fashion–and creates a unique portrait of this towering figure of postwar couture.   200 illustrations, 150 in color

Genres: Fashion, Biography

208 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2014

Reviews

[Saswati Saha Mitra · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was really nice to spend the afternoon reading Roxanne Lowit's book on Yves Saint Laurent. The photography was beautiful with simple words written by women who worked with him. It transports you to a different world where technically women had less but in many ways it felt like they had more than we do today. More freedom to be themselves. Beautiful and easy for the eye and the mind. Definitely worth having a copy if you are into coffee table books. Thank you Waterstones for making a space where you can just read.