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French actress Deneuve to auction personal YSL clothing next week

French screen legend Catherine Deneuve's personal clothing collection designed by her friend Yves Saint Laurent will be auctioned in Paris next week. Deneuve, 75, is auctioning her clothing by the late fashion icon after selling her country home in northern France where she kept a wardrobe full of Saint Laurent items. "These are the designs of...

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French actress Deneuve to auction off personal YSL collection

French screen legend Catherine Deneuve announced Monday she was set to auction off her personal clothing collection designed by her friend Yves Saint Laurent, the late fashion icon. Deneuve, who has just turned 75, said she was selling her country home in northern France where she kept a wardrobe full of Saint Laurent items and had decided to...

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The dreamed Asia of Yves Saint Laurent: when imagination and reality become one

"I approach all countries through dreams," said Yves Saint Laurent. Asia and other distant lands have exerted on him - and on other European artists - an immense fascination in local customs, folklore and exoticism that is clearly reflected in his collections. The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris has just opened the doors of its first...

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Yves Saint Laurent to open beauty hotel during New York Fashion Week

Yves Saint Laurent is set to kick off New York Fashion Week in a big way. The brand is set to open a beauty hotel at a townhouse in the city’s SoHo neighborhood. Each room will showcase YSL Beauty’s newest cosmetics including the Rouge Pur Couture lipstick and the scent Black Opium Eau de Parfum. The five floor exhibition will offer decor meant...

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Womenswear driving Saint Laurent's business

While the menswear market is on track to outpace the womenswear market, Saint Laurent is actually seeing a boom thanks to their womenswear. The Kering-owned brand has been one of the most precious gems of the luxury conglomerate, and under the creative direction of Anthony Vaccarello and the business leadership of CEO Francesca Bellettini, the...

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French luxury giants dive into Silicon Valley

Steve Jobs may have been a tech genius, but he clearly didn't care much for fashion. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has followed in his footsteps, sporting a plain grey T-shirt every day for years -- only to swap it for a simple black suit to testify before Congress and the European Parliament. But Silicon Valley, whose billionaires have long...

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Is Kering becoming too dependent on Gucci?

Investors and market analysts love to make alarming predictions about the future of companies they invest in; most of the time to soften the blow of a unavoidable loss. What is causing them to worry at the moment? The success story of Kering's top performing label, Gucci. Some investors are becoming more and more nervous of Kering’s future as it...

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YSL Museum to exhibit never-seen-before creations

The Yves Saint Laurent museum in Paris is to exhibit some forty new creations by its founding designer, some which have never been since in public before. This comes as other pieces are being restored, since the inaugural launch in October 2017. "The Yves Saint Laurent Paris Museum presents its collections in direct proximity to visitors who are...

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The top 7 Outstanding Fashion Duos of Past and Present

Collaboration makes the wheels of the fashion world spin which is why fashion duos are ubiquitous to our industry. The comfort of having someone to bounce ideas off, swallow the disappointments together, share the sacrifice, and pour you a stiff one at the end of a tough day cannot be overstated. Ideally either member has skills to offset the...

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Yves Saint Laurent museum opens to the public in Marrakesh

Marrakesh - Visitors crowded through the doors Thursday as a museum to legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent opened to the public in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh. The museum's management said 1,000 people thronged through its exhibition halls in the first three hours to get a glimpse of some of Saint Laurent's most iconic creations as...

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'Inspiration' Marrakesh hosts Yves Saint Laurent museum

A fusion of Moroccan traditions and contemporary flair that inspired Yves Saint Laurent, a museum to the famed fashion designer is set to be unveiled Saturday in his beloved Marrakesh. Following three years of work, technicians carried out final checks in a minimalist exhibition hall at the venue in the city that helped shape Saint Laurent's...

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Key Dates in Yves Saint Laurent Life

Ahead of the opening of museums in Paris and Marrakesh dedicated to the work of Yves Saint Laurent, here are some milestones in the life of the fashion icon. Starting out • He is born on August 1, 1936 in Algeria's Mediterranean city of Oran and named Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. • In his late teens, he moves to Paris in 1954 to study design and...