Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design - Softcover

Duras, Marguerite; Saint Laurent, Yves

 
9783829604710: Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design

Synopsis

Yves Saint Laurent Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world's leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent's designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year. The book also constitutes a high-quality review of fashion photography over a period of forty years, collecting 135 YSL dresses in images created by fashion photography's greatest 20th century heroes. Yves Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on fashion in the second half of the 20th century.

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To coincide with the Yves Saint-Laurent show at Petit Palais in Paris, we re-issue this book celebrating the triumph of the YSL design, captured by the world's best fashion photographers in pictures that were style-setting themselves. With a poetic and personal literary introduction by Marguerite Duras.

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Yves Saint Laurent Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world's leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent's designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year.

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ISBN 10:  1419744372 ISBN 13:  9781419744372
Publisher: Abrams, 2020
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