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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
entirely by hand and said to feature 250,000 sequins, in 22 different
colours, ...