Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Pendant Double Layer Dogwood Flower Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Unisex Large Hammered Textured Flower Double Layer Dogwood Chunky Statement Elegant Modernist Brooch Pendant, Gold Plated Very excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Massive Large Chunky Vivid Shell Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL 1980s Vintage Arty Unisex Massive Large Vivid Shell Chunky Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Massive Gripoix Crystals Orange Heart Oval Drop Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Massive Large Gripoix Orange Ruby Red Heart Oval Crystals Openwork Chunky Statement Exquisite Drop Dangle Dangle Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very ex...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Ruby Emerald Sapphire Dome Openwork Gold Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty 3D Vivid Textured Ruby Emerald Sapphire Citrine Pink Red Blue Navy Green Multicolour Round Circle Dome Openwork Elegant Modernist Chunky Statement...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Domed Gold Silver Cross Rope Hoop Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Unisex Arty Cross Quilted Rope Hoop Circle Round Domed Elegant Modernist Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Silver Tone Very good condition.
Gold Plate, Silver
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Amber Gold Perfume Bottle Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Unisex Gripoix Clear Yellow Amber Cabochon Perfume Bottle Brooch Pin, Gold Plated In excellent condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Cross Shining Crystals Glow Chunky Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Cross Shining Crystals Glow Chunky Statement Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition. 100% Genuine.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL 1980s Flower Blue Pink Green Crystals Openwork Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL 1980s Vintage Arty Blue Pink Green Shining Crystals Cluster Flower Openwork Elegant Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Ruby Sapphire Emerald Heart Love Link Bracelet
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Unisex Heart Love Ruby Emerald Sapphire Citrine Red Green Navy Yellow Orange Purple Square Cube Oval Round Circle Marquise Crystals Link Interlock...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Emerald Heart Cross Crystals Love Bow Marquise Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Rive Gauche Vintage Arty Unisex Huge Massive Large Cross Twist Layer Emerald Green Heart Love Leaf Bow Ribbon Whole Shining Sparkling Crystals Marquise Elegant...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Dark Green Heart Amethyst Cube Clip Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Dark Green Enamel Heart Amethyst Purple Diamond Cube Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Crystals Sapphire Pink Heart Water Drop Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Heart Love Sapphire Aqua Blue Brown Black Pink Citrine Yellow Crystals Crystals Cube Square Marquise Water Tear Drop Openwork Elegant Modernist Cl...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Large Butterfly Purple Enamel Ripple Gold Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Large Butterfly Bow Purple Enamel Ripple Elegant Modernist Brooch, Gold Plated This is much larger than others on the market.
Gold Plate, Enamel
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Crystals Openwork Double Leaf Dangle Chunky Long Necklace
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Arty Unisex 1980s Double Dangle Drop Openwork Crystals Chunky Statement Tassel Rope Leaf Flower Pendants Charms Layers Strands Modernist Elegant Long Necklace ...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Black Velvet Burgundy Tassel Gold Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL 1980s Vintage Arty Large Black Velvet Cross Knot Ribbon Round Circle Relief Pineapple Plant Burgundy Red Long Tassel Brooch Pendant, Gold Plated Very excellen...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Large Four Clover Flower Circle Linked Bracelet
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Vintage Arty Vivid Textured Large Four Clover Blossom Flower Charm Pendant Circle Round Linked Monderist Elegant Bracelet, Gold Tone Very exce...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Ruby Emerald Fuchsia Citrine Heart Round Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1980s Arty Large Ruby Emerald Fuchsia Citrine Sapphire Red Green Pink Yellow Blue Heart Love Circle Round Elegant Modernist Chunky Clip Earrings, Gold ...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gold Orange Heart Love Floral Pearl Drop Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty 1980s Textured Orange Heart Love Floral Flower White Pearl Elegant Drop Dangle Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Good condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Huge Pearl Gold Double Layer Flower White Brooch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Huge Large Double Layer Flower White Pearl Elegant Chunky Brooch, Gold Tone Excellent condition.
Gold Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Citrine Clear Topaz Oval Gold 2 Set
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Robert Goossens Arty 1980s Vintage Gripoix Citrine Topaz Yellow Oval Cabochon Pendants Charms Crystals Chunky Double Wheat Chain Modernist Elegant Necklace Cli...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Amber Gold Heart Love Square 2 Set
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Gripoix Amber Orange Cabochon Heart Love Square Cube Elegant Modernist 2 Gift Jewellery Set Earrings Brooch Pendant, Gold Tone Very excellent con...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Ruby Huge Four Clover Love Heart Brooch Pendant
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Haute Couture Arty Gripoix Huge Ruby Red Cabochon Four Clover Heart Love Pendant Choker Necklace Modernist Elegant Chunky Statement Brooch, Gold Tone Very exc...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Black Cabochon Enamel Silver Dots Chunky Ring, Size 6
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Cabochon Black Enamel Dots Chunky Statement Cocktail Ring, Size 6, Silver Tone Very good condition.
Silver, Enamel
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Layers Strands Logo Square Diamond Silver 2 Set
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Logo Layers Strands Chain Pendant Choker Necklace Drop Dangle Clip Earrings Modernist 2 Gift Jewellery Set, Silver Tone Very excellent condition.
Silver Plate
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Double Circle Green Red Ribbon Hoop Drop Earrings
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1980s Arty Double Circle Round Spiral Green Red Enamel Ribbon Holiday Hoop Dangle Elegant Modernist Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very excellent condition....
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1985 Massive Door Knocker Crystals Catwalk 2 Set
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage 1985 Arty Huge Massive Door Knocker Crystals Pendants Openwork Charms Triangle Rectangle Modernist Elegant Chunky Statement Necklace Exquisite Drop Dan...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Blue Cabochon Beads Coins 5 Layers Bib Necklace
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Robert Goossens Arty Gripoix Blue Navy Cabochon Crystals Beads Ball Circle Round Flowers Leaf Maltese Cross Coins 5 Layers Strands Bib Collar Choker Ch...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Gripoix Gold Green Pearls Emerald Amethyst Aqua Earrings
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Robert Goossens Arty Textured Large Gripoix Emerald Ruby Sapphire Green Blue Red Cabochon Crystals White Pearls Triangle Chunky Statement Clip Earrings...
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Gripoix Red Ruby Gold Cabochon Chunky Earrings
By Robert Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty 1980s Unisex Asymmetric Triangle Ruby Red Clear Cabochon Crystals Chunky Statement Clip Earrings, Gold Tone Very good condition.
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Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Large Circle Grey Brown Shell Pendant Necklace
By Maison Goossens for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche
Located in Wokingham, England
Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Arty Large Long Robert Goossens Rive Gauche Shell Water Drop Pendant Charm Circle Grey Brown Glow Y Chunky Statement Choker Collar Elegant Modernist Ne...
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French designer Yves Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture.
Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, Saint Laurent also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear.
By blurring gender-specific design, Saint Laurent empowered individual style while creating a scissor-sharp fashion aesthetic of sensual ease and beauty. Many of his designs are today considered timeless classics. Saint Laurent also consistently used Black models, like Mounia, Iman and Naomi Campbell, and he drew endless inspiration from different ethnicities and cultures, in no small part because of his Algerian roots.
Born to French parents in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, Saint Laurent went to Paris at age 17 to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Just two years later, in 1955, his remarkable sketches were shown to Christian Dior, then the world’s reigning couturier, who hired him immediately.
Surprisingly soon thereafter, Dior publicly chose Saint Laurent as his successor, which sadly proved prescient when the fashion legend died unexpectedly, in 1957. A mere slip of a youth, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent was nevertheless up to the challenge. He shook the traditional couture clientele to its core with youthful silhouettes and styles like the A-line trapeze dress that hung with seeming effortlessness from the shoulders, the antithesis of the pinched waists and molded skirts that had been all the rage after the deprivations of World War II.
After a mandated spell in the torturous French military, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous breakdown and was dismissed by Dior in 1962. Out of the ashes rose the Age of Yves. With Pierre Bergé, his then-lover who became his lifelong business partner and friend, the designer founded Yves Saint Laurent YSL to encompass prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear. In 1966, they opened the first YSL Rive Gauche women’s boutique in Paris, followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. Saint Laurent had given birth to a global brand.
His revolutionary Mondrian mini dress from 1965 is a core element of his fashion biography. It is a prime example of how Saint Laurent, an avid art lover and collector, looked to painters, from Goya to Picasso, Ingres to Matisse, for inspiration.
With its pure lines and hues, Mondrian’s ground-breaking 1935 color-block painting Composition C transmutes beautifully into a dress that is highly valued by collectors of contemporary fashion and widely copied commercially to this day. The design is the epitome of Saint Laurent’s aesthetic, requiring a meticulous hand-piecing of each color block so that, despite the body’s curves, the visual plane is as flat as a canvas when the garment is worn. Mondrian’s purity met its match in Saint Laurent.
“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style,” Saint Laurent said four years before retiring, in 2002. After a long period of ill health, he died at his home in Paris on June 1, 2008.
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