Yves Saint Laurent: Form and Fashion

Yves Saint Laurent: Form and Fashion by Elsa Janssen is a scholarly yet beautifully produced study of the formal innovations that made Yves Saint Laurent one of the twentieth century’s most significant and revolutionary fashion designers. Janssen examines how Saint Laurent rethought the relationship between the female body and structured clothing — the tuxedo, the safari jacket, the peasant blouse, the Mondrian dress — creating garments that were simultaneously modern, wearable, and artistically serious. Published by Flammarion with exceptional photography from the house archives, this is both a fashion history and a study in design thinking — essential for fashion students, historians, and anyone who wants to understand why Saint Laurent’s contributions to twentieth-century dress remain unmatched.