Remembering Yves
Videos like this make me wish I was alive during the ’60’s…and living in Paris…and friends with Yves Saint Laurent.
This clip from YSL: His Life and Times shows behind-the-scenes footage of Saint Laurent’s pivotal second collection under his own fashion house. After his first collection was met with mixed reviews, the success of his label depended on this presentation to fashion media and society swans of the day — Edmonde Charles-Roux Marie editor-in chief of French Vogue, Louise Bousquet Paris editor of Harper’s Bazaar, and stylish Princess Lee Radziwill née Bouvier (sister of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy).
This 1962 archival footage is super-super rare and shows you how different the (pre-catwalk) presentation of the collections were before fashion shows became so huge and theatrical.
