Yves Saint Laurent: the Retrospective to head to Denver Art Museum
Yves Saint Laurent: the Retrospective will take in Denver for its only North American stop between March 25 and July 8, 2012. Held at the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition features 200 haute couture outfits, and photographs, drawings and films. The exhibition follows Saint Laurent from his work at Dior in 1958 through to […]
Footage: Kate Moss and Jamie Hince leave the church after their wedding
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince tied the knot Friday at St Peter’s Church in Gloucestershire, near the 37-year-old supermodel’s home in Little Faringdon. The bride wore a John Galliano-designed gown with gold embroidery, matched with Manolo Blahnik shoes. The groom wore a Stefano Pilati for YSL suit. There was heavy security for the wedding, […]
Chic runs from Petone to Paris
Douglas Rimington On the main part of the Lucire site today is a special travel promotion on Petone, a place which really surprised us. The historical area on Jackson Street is full of surprises, and for Wellingtonians who hold on to decades’ old views about what Petone is like, cast aside your notions. Jackson Street, […]
Supermodel Christy Turlington returns in YSL campaign
Supermodel Christy Turlington, 40, is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent, fronting the fashion house’s autumn–winter 2009–10 campaign. Previously, Claudia Schiffer, one of Turlington’s contemporaries, had been the face of Yves Saint Laurent advertising. The campaign has been photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. The last YSL campaign to feature […]
Claudia Schiffer to front YSL’s spring ’09 campaign
We’re hearing that Claudia Schiffer will replace Naomi Campbell for Yves Saint Laurent’s spring–summer 2009 campaign. Schiffer has also shot for Dolce & Gabbana and Salvatore Ferragamo for that season. Women’s Wear Daily reports that the YSL campaign was photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadib. Other media will no doubt seize upon […]
Why Yves Saint Laurent’s passing is so felt in fashion
Yves Saint Laurent’s passing is such a shock to the fashion media because he was the world’s greatest couturier. When we broke the news on Sunday night at Lucire, it was obvious that we were marking the end of an era. The casual observer might say that the end occurred in 2002, when […]
Yves Saint Laurent, fashion legend, dies
Yves Saint Laurent, arguably the world’s most famous fashion designer, has died in Paris on Sunday, 11.10 p.m. local time, aged 71, according to the Pierre Bergé–Saint Laurent Foundation. Born Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent in Oran, Algeria on August 1, 1936, he had a childhood fascination for clothes, often teased and bullied […]
