The son of associate insurer manager, Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent left home at the age of seventeen to figure for the French designer couturier. He would endure to become one in every of the foremost celebrated designers in history.
Yves Henri-Donat Matthieu-Saint Laurent was born on one August 1935 in metropolis, African country to Charles and Lucienne Saint Laurent. He had 2 younger sisters known as Michelle and Brigette for whom he designed dresses in his early years. At the age of eighteen years, he emotional to Paris wherever he listed within the Chambre Syndicale DE la dressmaking wherever his styles gained a lot of attention. Saint Laurent was introduced to designer couturier by Michel DE Brunoff, the editor of French Vogue.
To start with, he was given mundane tasks to complete however when winning 1st prize within the International Wool Secretariat contest for his dress style in 1954, Yves Saint Laurent landed the work of high fashion designer once fashion designer died in 1957 at the age of fifty two. At the tender age of twenty one, he launched a spring assortment for the style house and gained essential approval for his dresses because the head of the House of fashion designer.
In 1960, he was conscripted into the French Army. His spell within the service was fugacious but, and he was transferred into a French asylum full of stress, wherever he underwent medicine treatment, as well as shock therapy, for a breakdown. He served within the military for simply twenty days.
In 1962, within the wake of his breakdown, Saint Laurent was discharged from fashion designer and commenced his own label, YSL, supported by his companion, state capital Bergé. The Rive graceless boutiques for ladies were established in 1966, and public toilet wear followed within the Nineteen Seventies. He was the primary designer to use ethnic minorities as models on the runway.
He was conjointly well-known throughout this era together of 'Paris' jet-set' attributable to continuously being seen in French and North American country night clubs. He was a significant drinker and frequent user of cocain throughout the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies.
'YSL' is probably most famed for "Le Smoking" formalwear jacket, gossamer blouses, peasant blouses, bolero jackets, pantsuits and smocks. By feminising the fundamental shapes of the male wardrobe, YSL set new standards for world fashion. He not solely tailored the male formalwear for ladies, however conjointly expedition jackets, pea jackets and flying suits.
His 1971 radical '40s' assortment dismayed critics, as did the ad blitz for the primary YSL men’s fragrance, 'Pour Homme' that featured Yves himself motility nude. In 1977, YSL launched the extremely popular 'Opium' fragrance.
In 1983, he became the primary living tailor to incline a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan repository of Art.
In 1993, the Saint Laurent fashion house was sold-out to the prescription drugs company, Sanofi, for about $600,000,000.
