Saint Laurent, Yves
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Yves Saint Laurent
Birth name: Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent (French: Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent)
Occupation: fashion designer, costume designer
Label: Yves Saint Laurent
Date of birth: August 1, 1936(1936-08-01)
Place of birth: Oran, French Algeria
Citizenship: France France
Date of death: June 1, 2008 (2008-06-01) (71 years old)
Place of death: Paris, France
Awards and prizes:
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent (fr. Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent; August 1, 1936, Oran, Algeria — June 1, 2008, Paris) was a French fashion designer who worked in the world of haute couture from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, the creator of a fashion house named after himself.
He introduced such elements of men's wardrobe as high boots and a tuxedo into women's fashion, and is considered the founder of the unisex style.
He was the first to invite black models to participate in the shows of his collections.
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1 Biography 2 Statements [7] 3 Awards and recognition 4 Filmography 5 Notes 6 Literature 7 References
Biography[edit / edit wiki text]
He was born on August 1, 1936 in the city of Oran in Algeria in the family of an insurance agent.
Saint Laurent spent his childhood and youth with his family, in an atmosphere of "friendship and happiness" [1].
In Oran, the future fashion designer studied first at college, then at the lyceum.
He started drawing at the age of 8, at the age of 11 he became interested in theater, at the age of 14 he began to make home puppet productions: he drew and built scenery, made small dolls, dressed them in costumes from old rags that he painted himself.
Saint Laurent did not know how to sew at that time, and his costumes for dolls were glued.
He staged the performances" The School of Wives " by Moliere," The Double headed Eagle " by Cocteau," For Lucretia "by Girodu, " Joan of Arc" ("Saint Joan") Shows that he showed to his sisters and cousins[1].
The costumes and scenery of Christian Berard, the paintings of Henri Matisse, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet played a significant role in the artistic formation of Yves Saint Laurent.
"...
In my work as a fashion designer, I always strive for the purity of Matisse's lines, and in clothes it is very difficult.
I discovered painting back in Oran.
I've never learned to draw and I know that I donot draw well, I'm just expressive.
Although I would like to be an artist as well.
I love Matisse very much, I love his bright colors, a clear line.
His series "Moroccan Women" is great.
But I also love other artists: Velasquez's dresses are huge as the ocean, the solemnity of whiteness in Manet, like the whiteness of the dress in his paintings "Balcony" and "Portrait of Berthe Morizot"......"[2]
— (Yves Saint Laurent, "About myself")
In 1953, he came to Paris, studied at the drawing courses "haute couture".
At the same time, the first creative victory was won, which determined the fate of 17 — year old Yves Saint Laurent his little black cocktail dress received the first prize at a competition organized by the International Wool Secretariat[2].
In 1955-1957, he worked in the fashion house of Christian Dior, was one of his assistants.
After the unexpected death of the fashion designer on October 24, 1957, 21 year old Saint Laurent, whose name began to be written as St. Laurent (from the French — "St. Lawrence)", was appointed artistic director of the house "Dior".
In January 1958, he released his first women's collection for this house — "Trapeze" beat the forms of a traditional Russian sundress.
In June 1959, together with twelve models, he flew to Moscow with a collection of women's outerwear, becoming the first to present French fashion in the USSR[3].
In 1960, he was called up for military service and sent to the front in Africa; 20 days later, he had a nervous breakdown and Saint Laurent was demobilized; he was treated in a psychiatric clinic, where he was treated with electroconvulsive therapy.
In 1961, Yves Saint Laurent left the firm "Christian Dior".
Together with his life partner Pierre Berger, who persuaded the American billionaire Mark Robison to make an investment of several million francs, he founded a fashion house under his own name, the logo became the first letters of his name — YSL.
The first collection of the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent was presented to the public on January 29, 1962.
In parallel with his work as a fashion designer, Saint Laurent also actively works as a theater artist, creating costumes and scenery for ballets, dramatic performances, variety shows.
In 1968, exhibitions of Saint Laurent's theatrical drawings were held in New York and London.
In 1964, he released his first perfume called Y.
The collection of 1965 was created based on the painting of Piet Mondrian and brought the fashion designer success.
The 1966 collection was the first in the fashion world to offer a tuxedo for women, which for many years became the designer's signature technique.
In 1971, Yves released the perfume "Rive Gauche", after the name of the bohemian part of Paris, in the same year he posed naked for an advertising photo of a new fragrance for men.
In 1977, he released the perfume " Opium [en]", which became the most famous fragrance released under his name.
He collaborated with the choreographer Roland Petit, created costumes for his ballet "Notre Dame de Paris" (1965) and the duet "The Death of the Rose" (1973, staged for Maya Plisetskaya), also repeatedly created costumes for Petit's wife, ballerina Zizi Janmer and her various revues.
In 1981, he received the International Award of the American Council of Fashion Designers.
In 1983, he became the first fashion designer to whom a lifetime retrospective exhibition was dedicated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York- " Yves Saint Laurent.
25 years of creativity"[4].
Since about the end of the 1980s, he began to get more and more ill, was treated for alcohol and drug addiction.
In 1992, his partner, Pierre Berger, announced the "end of haute couture", throughout the 1990s, their fashion house was plagued by financial difficulties.
In 1998, Berger commissioned the young fashion designer Albert Elbaz to produce women's collections[fr].
At the same time, in 1998-1999, the American Council of Fashion Designers recognized his work with the Jofrey Bean Award for lifetime achievement.
In January 2002, Yves Saint Laurent finally retired from business.
Wikinovosti on the topic:
Yves Saint Laurent has died
He died after a long illness on June 1, 2008 at the age of 71 in his Paris home.
The funeral, scheduled for June 6, was postponed a day earlier at the request of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The farewell to the fashion designer took place on June 5, 2008 in Paris, on the Rue Saint Honore [fr] in the area of the Church of St. Roja[fr], where traffic was blocked for half a day[5].
Shortly before his death, he entered into a same sex union with Pierre Berger, his long time partner in life and business.
In 2010, a large scale retrospective exhibition dedicated to his work was held at the Petit Palais in Paris[6].
Statements [7][edit / edit wiki text]
Over the years, I realized that the most important thing in a dress is the woman who puts it on.
In this life, I regret only one thing — that I did not invent jeans.
Clothing should be subordinated to the personality of a woman, and not vice versa.
Love is the best cosmetics.
But it's easier to buy cosmetics.
My dresses are designed for women who can afford to travel with forty suitcases.
One "beautiful" day, it was announced on the radio that I had died.
Crowds of journalists rushed to me.
— I had to say that it was all a lie: here I am, alive and almost healthy.
But for some reason they absolutely did not want to believe me, although they saw me with their own eyes.
The best clothes for a woman are the hugs of a man who loves her.
But for those who are deprived of such happiness, there is me.
Fashion passes, style is eternal.
Awards and recognition[edit / edit wiki text]
1966 - "Oscar" of Harper's Bazaar magazine 1981 International Fashion Award of the American Council of Fashion Designers (in honor of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Yves Saint Laurent house) 1985 Knight of the Legion of Honor 1998/99 — Jofrey Bean Award for lifetime Achievement from the American Council of Fashion Designers 2001 Commander of the Legion of Honor 2007 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
Filmography[edit / edit wiki text]
"Yves Saint Laurent — is a film directed by Jalil Lesper, starring Pierre Ninet; it was released in France on January 8, 2014.
"Saint Laurent.
Style is me" is a film directed by Bertrand Bonello, starring Gaspard Ulliel[8], 2014.
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
↑ 1 2 Yves Saint Laurent, 1989, p .
6. ↑ 1 2 3 Yves Saint Laurent, 1989, p .
7. ↑ Dior in the USSR a visit in 1959.
И Yves Saint Laurent, 1989, p .
8. ↑ Yves Saint Laurent: farewell to a legend.
Checked on February 9, 2010.
Archived from the original source on March 1, 2012.
Рет Retrospective exhibition of Yves Saint Laurent (rus.).
DekoZap.
Checked on February 9, 2010.
Archived from the original source on March 1, 2012.
Фокус Focus Magazine, June 6, 2008 ↑ Gaspard Houllier will play Yves Saint Laurent
Literature[edit / edit wiki text]
Yves Saint Laurent.
About me / / Yves Saint Laurent and the theater.
Exhibition catalog.
- L.-M., 1989 — - 6-10 S. K. Pertsova.
My Yves Saint Laurent.
M.: Slovo, 2011.
240 p., ill., 3000 copies, ISBN 978-5-387-00301-1; reprint.
2012.
ISBN 978-5-387-00440-7
Links[edit / edit wiki text]
Biography of Yves Saint Laurent in GQ magazine Saint Laurent and the theater: costume sketches, statements of the fashion designer, his photos
Source — "https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint Laurent, _Iv&oldid=83094595"
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