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Article: THE IoS PROFILE: Yves Saint Laurent - The legend in every woman's wardrobe When he took over Dior at 21, he was the youngest-ever couturier. At 65, he's still defining the way we dress
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2001
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Hidden away in the suburbs of Paris is the Yves Saint Laurent
Museum. With its polished wood floors, acreage of windows and huge,
floor-to-ceiling, gold-leaf doors, this temple houses 5,000 outfits,
2,000 pairs of shoes and more than 10,000 pieces of jewellery. The
curator calls the clothes "the sleeping bee-oo-tee-fuls". They hang
like precious objets d'art in air-conditioned vaults, or lie, covered
carefully with blankets of white tissue-paper, in huge flat drawers.
No one is allowed to touch them unless they're wearing pristine white
gloves.
Here's the Iris cardigan, inspired by Van Gogh's painting and made