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Most popular womens perfume - by Yves Saint Laurent.
If, from New York to Paris and from Sydney to Peking, more than two
million visitors have admired his creations in museums, his style is
expressed first and foremost through colour, life, movement and the
history of women, which he lovingly accompanies since 1958, the date
of his first collection for Christian Dior, which made him famous all
over the world.
Born in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, he was a mere twenty-one-years-old when,
already, he was referred to as "Christian II". He founded
his own house of couture in 1962, with Pierre Bergé, and, in
1966, his "Rive Gauche" line of ready-to-wear, which allowed
thousands of women to blend elegance and comfort. Besides creating some
of the most popular womens perfume, the bush shirt
(1968) and the pantsuit (1969) became classics of the contemporary wardrobe.
"A happy woman is a woman in a black skirt, with a black pullover,
black stockings, a piece of costume jewelry and a man who loves her
by her side."
In order to assert himself as the leading outfitter of his day, this
aesthete succeeded, better than anyone else, in transcribing his dreams
inspired by artists: Andy Warhol, Mondrian and Tom Wesselman during
the sixties, Picasso in the seventies, Van Gogh and Bonnard in the eighties.
His creations have always caused a scandal, from the first see-through
blouses (1968) to his perfume, Opium, launched in 1977. But his strength
is his ability also to embody absolute classicism, with Catherine Deneuve
as his ambassador. As the heir to Chanel and Balenciaga, he remains
true to their lines, uncluttered by detail: "Elegance is a way
of moving".
Yves Saint Laurent, a passionate collector and opera enthusiast, creator
of most popupar womens perfume , remains one of the last great
aesthetes at the close of this century. From Cyrano de Bergerac to The
Two-Headed Eagle, he has created many costumes for the theatre, his first
love. His art has become purer and, in a whisper of muslin, he recreates
dreams worthy of a Botticelli, as if to say: "A man or a woman's
most beautiful adornment is love."
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