Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection explores the couturier’s forty-year oeuvre through 100 seminal pieces, from the Mondrian dress to Le Smoking tuxedo. (via AnOther)
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Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection explores the couturier’s forty-year oeuvre through 100 seminal pieces, from the Mondrian dress to Le Smoking tuxedo
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The latest addition to publishing house Assouline’s ‘Impossible’ collection – a series of books on design, culture and luxury whereby each volume is entirely hand-crafted and comes with its own display box and curatorial pair of white gloves – is a tome celebrating the legacy of the French-Algerian couturier, Yves Saint Laurent. Titled Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection, it follows the release, late last year, of Assouline’s Chanel: The Impossible Collection, which charted 100 of Coco Chanel’s most enduring designs, written by AnOther Magazine’s fashion features director, Alexander Fury.
“Chanel offered women freedom, Yves Saint Laurent gave them power,” Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent’s longtime partner in life and business, is quoted as saying in the book’s introduction by the author Laurence Benaïm (the journalist and writer has previously published several other books on Saint Laurent, as well on Christian Dior, where the couturier worked prior to beginning his eponymous house). Charting the 100 pieces which define Saint Laurent’s career, Benaïm pays testament to a couturier with “the freedom to stand up for one’s beliefs, to show one’s true self by defying taboos, living brilliantly and passionately, and breaking all the rules”.
“Saint Laurent was the first designer to express his affection for women not as a father but like a lover to whom they could give themselves completely,” writes Benaïm. “It seems impossible to imagine a world without Saint Laurent, without his signature vocabulary, his liberated classic styles with their effortless fluidity of movement.”
Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection, published by Assouline, is out now.
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