Yves Saint Laurent
O fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
The Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, born in Oran in Algeria, but his future, he wrote''Paris''.
In 1953 she won third place in a competition for young fashion designers and going to Paris to collect his prize, he met Michel de Brunhoff, Editor-in-chief of French Vogue, who was impressed with his drawings and encouraged him to become a fashion designer. Luckily, the Saint Laurent heard him and enrolled at a college and graduated as the brightest star!
Again took part in a design competition in which he won, excluding the Fernamdo Sanchez and ... .. Karl Lagerfeld!
The designs of Saint Laurent, seemed so much to those of the already leading Christian Dior, who hired him the second in the studio soon!
The Dior died shortly after, leaving Saint Laurent as his successor. He was only 21 years ...
From this point onwards, the history of this important designer began to write: He brought the catwalks in beatnik style, wore safari jackets in both sexes, tight pants, boots and of course wore on women Le Smoking, the androgynous look came true Bones in 1966. Let us not forget that he was the first French designer who created the first prêt-a-porter clothing line, bringing haute couture, one step closer to a broad mass public.