Article summary: This article talk about Yves Saint Laurent as the King of Fashion
The King of Fashion has left many things to all fans of fashion, sentence “Fashions fade, style is eternal” is a phrase that had been uttered by Yves Saint Laurent, became one of the many things that have been inherited.
Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion world mourned when Yves Saint Laurent dies in June 2008. Not just lost one of the greatest designers, but also because of the loss of the greatest talent always brings new innovations to the world of fashion. Therefore, only natural that Laurent’s funeral funerals are like the king who died. However, the departure of Laurent did not make it immediately vanished and forgotten.
Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent’s partner, said that the legacy left by Laurent so much so that his name will continue to be remembered.
Berge says what is true. Saint Laurent’s legacy not only in the field of fashion, but also architecture and the environment, one of them form the Botanic Garden Major Elle in Morocco, which owned Saint Laurent in 1980. Major Elle, bright Berge, has significance for Laurent for designers titled The King of Fashion Major Elle’s successful fight for the transfer of functions into a hospitality area. Currently Major Elle is home to diverse flora from five continents. More than 350 species grow there, including a rare collection of cacti, palms, bamboo, and ferns from Latin America.
In the world of fashion, many more heritage left by Saint Laurent, began his genius as a young designer for Dior women’s fashions up to the revolution which he did with liberating womankind from the corset and pants made as a fashionable item.
The Story of Saint Laurent as a designer began in 1953, when he sent three sketches for the contest of young designers from the International Wool Secretariat. Men whose real name is Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent managed to become the third champion. Saint Laurent went to Paris to receive the award and later met with Michel de Brunhoff, editor-in-chief of French Vogue. De Brunhoff interested sketch Saint Laurent will then recommend to become a professional designer and helped Chambre Syndicale school in de la Couture. Unfortunately, the system of teaching in these institutions does not match the style of Saint Laurent, he then decided to quit.
However, Saint Laurent has a competitive spirit. He went back to following the fashion competition held by the International Wool Secretariat, and this time became the winner, defeating two biggest rivals, Fernando Sanchez and Karl Lagerfeld. The victory brings a new way for Saint Laurent de Brunhoff that always follow in the footsteps of talented young designers are finding similarities with the design of Saint Laurent Christian Dior and Saint Laurent decided to bring under the guidance of the famous couturier.
In the fashion house Christian Dior, Saint Laurent increasingly honed talent. However, do not want to Dior designer Saint Laurent became a big headache. Therefore, he hired Saint Laurent as a junior staff for one year and began sketching for Dior couture collection in the second year. In 1957, when Dior died of a heart attack, Saint Laurent was appointed creative director immediately replace the couturier. That time had just 21 years old.
Saint Laurent became the first designer who managed to prove that young age is not barrier to make something big. The collection for Dior fashion house in 1958 and reaped a lot of positive response immediately raised his name to the ranks of top designers. In the same year, Saint Laurent introduced the Trapeze dress instantly became a favorite French fusionist.
Not all of the life of Saint Laurent was flooded with light. He has ever experienced dark periods, especially after performing military service in 1960 which resulted in him having severe depression and should be treated in a mental hospital, which once made him “fired” from Dior.
After otherwise healthy, Saint Laurent also choose their own path and started his own fashion house, working with Pierre Berge. Yves Saint Laurent fashion house directly reap success and captured the attention of fusionists with style fashion simple, practical, yet elegant. Saint Laurent also continually introducing new fashions, such as the beatnik look, safari jackets, tight pants, thigh-high boots, to the tuxedo for women. Saint Laurent also reintroduced the classic fashions from the 1920s until the 1940s, but in a more contemporary look. Not only that, Saint Laurent was a French designer who spawned the idea of fashion’s first ready-to-wear that revolutionized the world of fashion immediately. Do not stop there, Saint Laurent also change the grip catwalk show by becoming the first designer to use black models, Asian and Hispanic.
Despite the rise and fall of her life, she had entered a mental hospital, suffering from drug dependence and alcohol so that should be in and out of rehab. For the world of fashion, Saint Laurent is a revolutionary who changed the grip of fashion. During four decades of work, the designers who got the nickname The King of Fashion This have given large contributions to the world of international fashion.
Saint Laurent died at the age of 71 years due to brain cancer. The funeral which was held in Paris is attracting the attention of many parties, including fashion and celebrity elite. When the funeral, Berge said he would bring to the YSL ashes in his homeland of the Maghreb, the place where he was born. Good bye the king of fashion!
