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Know Everything About Yves Saint Laurent Clothes & Handbags
Yves Saint
Laurent, YSL a popular fashion house of luxury clothing was started
by Yves Saint Laurent and his co-worker Pierre Berge. After the death
of Yves Saint Laurent in 2008, Stefano Pilati joined in as a chief designer.
Yves Saint
Laurent brand was established in the year 1962. In between 1960-70,
the brand offered the range of collection that included safari
jackets for men and women, tight
pants,
long boots which had a typical Beatnik look (anti-materialistic
lifestyle). It focused on creating the popular classic tuxedo suit
especially for women called the Le Smoking, in the year 1966. He had
a huge collection of memorable designs Pop Art, Ballet Russes,
Picasso, and Chinese, with this he brought back the fashion of
1920’s, 30’s, 40’s of designing the silhouettes. In
1966, he popularized ready-to-wear collection in order to liberalize
fashion and he started Rive Gauche and Rive Gauche boutique.
In 1993, Yves
St. Laurent sold its fashion house to Sanofi, a pharmaceutical
company for around $600,000,000. After designing three collections,
by Alber Elbaz in 1998-99, Gucci took over the YSL brand, for which
he suggested Tom Ford to design the ready-to-wear range while YSL was
engaged to design the haute couture range.
He was the
first person in the fashion industry to introduce blacks for modeling
his collection in fashion shows. Yves St. Laurent fashion clothing is
highly recognized for its exceptional and modern elegance seen in his
creation. Yves St. Laurent clothing specifically for women included a
male range like the blazer, the leather
jacket, the tuxedo, the pant
suit etc....
Finally in the
year 2002, during which YSL was suffering with poor health,
depression, got in habit of consuming alcohol, drugs, and the
intolerable criticisms for the designs by YSL due to which
Saint-Laurent decided wind up the couture house of YSL. Presently,
the YSL brand survives under the Gucci Group, which is YSL’s
parent company. Where as Tom Ford left YSL in the year 2004 and
Stefano Pilati still directs and designs the pret-a-porter fashion
label, which is a French style rather than the sexy image the Tom
Ford had created.
For online
shopping of Yves Saint Laurent fashion clothes and accessories, YSL
redesigned their brand website which allows the US customers to buy
men’s and women’s fashion clothes, ready-to-wear, fashionable
accessories, handbags,
shoes, leather
goods and popular items online. YSL unique which is
“Tribute” bags and shoes are highly in demand in the
international market. People who are brand conscious get a variety of
selection but however the number of items under this section are
quite limited. There are online exclusive stores of the YSL brand.
The fashion
clothes of YSL brand are designed for both men and women who give
their freedom more priority and this feeling can be reflected through
their designer clothing and
dressing where YSL has managed to design clothes that are elegant and
reflect confidence and assurance. Men on the other hand usually
nonconformist appearance and reveal the different concepts of their
personality in fashionable and emotional way.
YSL presently
operates 63 stores directly along with the flagship store in Paris,
London, Milan, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Yves Saint Laurent
brand in available in the most popular and prestigious
stores of the world. |
