YSL's life in pictures
Here's a look at the French designer's career.
Tue, Jun 03, 2008
The Straits Times
Here's a look at the French designer's career.
| 1954 | 1958 | 1969 |
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| Saint Laurent is seen here with a drawing of his cocktail dress design that won him first prize in a fashion drawing competition a year earlier. The win led to his job with Christian Dior. | Saint Laurent, with the help of his assistant Marguerite Carre, tests a hat on model Svetlana, who is wearing his famous trapeze dress. | Saint Laurent is flanked by Betty Catroux (left) and Loulou de la Falaise (right) outside his first London chain of Rive Gauche ready-to-wear boutique in Bond Street. The women are wearing his new safari-style designs made of khaki cotton. |
| 1977 | 1997 | 2002 |
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| Saint Laurent names one of his women's perfumes Opium and is accused of glamorising drug use and trivialising the 19th-century Opium Wars in China. It still became a bestseller. | Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is one of the models for Saint Laurent's spring/summer haute couture collection. | The Mondrian dresses, made in 1965, were inspired by painter Piet Mondrian. The designs are again presented at Saint Laurent's last haute couture show at the Pompidou Centre later. |
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| Saint Laurent is applauded by models at the end of his last haute couture fashion show in Paris. | Photos: AP, Reuters, ST |
This article was first published in The Straits Times on Jun 3, 2008.