Yves Saint Laurent: Love - by Yves Saint Laurent & Patrick Mauriès & Maxime Catroux (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Presenting the love-themed designs created by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent for his friends and collaborators, this beautifully produced edition is a perfect gift: stylish, heartfelt, and visually unforgettable

In 1970, Yves Saint Laurent created the first in a series of poster-like greeting cards he sent each year to friends, collaborators, and clients.

For the next thirty-eight years, until his death in 2007, Saint Laurent designed bespoke compositions using collage, drawing, gouache, and bold, varied color palettes. While many of these works were inspired by Morocco--where he often created them--they also reflect the influence of artists, such as Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Andy Warhol, and Henri Matisse. Each card is a unique, striking, and personal expression of the legendary designer's imagination. What unites them is the word "LOVE," always featured somewhere in the design.

The updated edition of Yves Saint Laurent: LOVE includes a brand-new layout with 16 additional pages, captions that provide insight into Saint Laurent's life, a luxuriously stunning cover, and an introduction from Maxime Catroux, Saint Laurent's goddaughter and the vice president of the Yves Saint Laurent Museum. The foreword by French fashion writer Patrick Mauriès, which accompanied the original book, remains.

Together, the vivid imagery and this text written by those close to Saint Laurent form a meditation on love that is a treat for the eye as well as the heart.

About the Author

Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the world's most influential fashion designers who founded his eponymous label in 1962 after working at first under Christian Dior as his assistant, and then becoming his successor at only twenty-one years old. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers of the twentieth century. Maxime Catroux is the daughter of Betty Catroux, model and muse of Yves Saint Laurent. She is also the vice president of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent and Saint Laurent's goddaughter. Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Yves Saint Laurent: Accessories; Chanel: The Karl Lagerfeld Campaigns; Goude: The Chanel Sketchbooks; and many more.