Valentino: the Last Emperor and Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times



Valentino also made me think about another great – YSL. Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times and Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau concentrates more on YSL the man and it’s heartbreaking. Sweet sweet man without any diva tantrums, very shy and humble. Valentino and YSL offered very different views on fashion but they both understood that it was, indeed, fine art and not blatant consumerism. With YSL gone and Valentino retired, it marks an end of an era in fashion that will never be replicated. For my birthday I received Yves Saint Laurent Style book. The book was the companion to an exhibition that was at The Montreal Museum of Fine Art and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It is more art oriented and features a great collection of YSL original illustrations and notes on fashion.
