Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Collections

Yves Saint Laurent created haute couture in the image of modern womanhood — replacing the corseted silhouettes of the Dior New Look with the trouser suit, the safari jacket, the tuxedo, and the transparent blouse, and in doing so liberated women’s bodies while simultaneously creating some of the most beautiful clothes ever made. Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Collections presents every collection from 1962 to 2002, a forty-year survey of the most influential career in the history of fashion.

Runway photographs, detail shots, and expert commentary by Suzy Menkes — the most respected fashion journalist of her generation — document every collection in its historical context, tracing the development of a vision that was simultaneously commercially astute and artistically uncompromising.

The definitive YSL reference — a magnificent monument to the most significant fashion career of the twentieth century. Published by Thames & Hudson.