![]() ![]() Bérard had designed both sets and costumes. At the age of sixteen he attended a performance of Molière's L'École des femmes, performed and directed by Louis Jouvet. ![]() ![]() In February 1949 he created his first dresses, made for his mother and his two sisters. Saint Laurent designed a good deal, imitating Jean Gabriel-Domergue, Christian Bérard, René Gruau, Christian Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Hubert de Givenchy. I thought only of my puppets, my marionettes, which I dressed up in imitation of the plays I had seen" (Benaïm, p. "I had a terrible time in class, and when I got home at night I was completely free. Strongly influenced by the play L'École à deux têtes of Jean Cocteau, he designed his first dresses: stage costumes for paper puppets with which he performed for his sisters. He entered the Collège du Sacré-Cœur in September 1948. I think of myself as a Frenchman born in Algeria" (Teboul 2002). He said later: "As long as I live I will remember my childhood and adolescence in the marvelous country that Algeria was then. Yves Mathieu Saint Laurent was born on 1 August 1936 in the Algerian city of Oran, the oldest of the threeĬhildren of Lucienne-Andrée and Charles Mathieu Saint Laurent. I am not a couturier, I am a craftsman, a maker of happiness" (Teboul 2002). Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. In search of a uniform for elegance, Saint Laurent combined the greatest rigor of production with extreme sophistication of form to create clothing of impeccable cut with harmonious proportions, where the aesthetic of the detail was transformed into an absolute necessity. Taming the signs and codes of his age, he created the grammar of the contemporary wardrobe and imposed his language, which became the inescapable reference of the twentieth century. A direct heir of the couture tradition of Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent explored, discovered, and polished, in the course of a career lasting more than forty years, the infinite resources of his vocabulary. ![]()
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