Yves Saint Laurent .. When the student becomes a legend

It is not possible to decide permanently, in a story of the superiority of the French fashion designer, the Algerian -born, Yves Saint Laurent, on his famous teacher Christian Dior, and the matter is still a great controversy to this day, as a large number of those interested in the world of fashion and fashion see that Yves San Laurent has already outperformed his teacher Christian Dior, and he managed with his distinguished brand to put his name among the most important designers throughout history. While others see that no one can outperform Dior, it is the one who changed the rules of fashion design, and transferred them already from one place to another, and the most recent real revolution in it, its effects are still to this day.

A talented child:

Since his early childhood in Algeria, Eve Saint Laurent’s artistic talents appeared, and his passion for fashion and fashion began to appear visible, and the child Laurent expressed a great tendency for art and fashion, and he was spending a long time every day in drawing on paper; His talent grows and grows day by day.

His mother, the love and follow -up of her, had a major impact on shaping his identity and encouraging his interest in it, as she continued to attend all the magazines interested in spreading fashion news and high -end fashion designs, and urges him to develop his talent and development, and move forward in this creative field.

When Eve reached 13 years old, he already began to imitate the designs that are widespread at the time, and launched his own designs, which he was inspired by those magazines. He began developing his talent without a real teacher, especially since the French child was known for his isolation from others, the isolation that accompanied him throughout his life, and he spent most of his time roaming between his drawings and designs.

After reaching 17 years, Eve Saint Laurent left Algeria, headed towards Paris to study fashion at Eta Modi School, which is one of the most important fashion design schools, and began there to show his true talent for the public.

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The student .. and the teacher:

In 1955, a fundamental shift in the life of Yves Saint Laurent was not exceeding 19, as he believed in the most famous fashion designers ever, Christian Dior, and chose him with complete conviction to work in his fashion house, but Dior Bloran’s conviction prompted him to appoint him as his main assistant. This relationship was a milestone in his career, and it had a great role in the development and refinement of his talent, and Dior had a great influence that could not be ignored in everything Laurent later presented, and even after Dior’s death.

With his work under the direct supervision of Christian Dior, and his outstanding talent developed very quickly, Yves Saint Laurent began to spread his own creativity, which has become clear in the costumes of the house, especially since he was able to combine elegant and traditional, and between modernity and development, and this is what that time era witnessed .

Yves Saint Laurent has become an indispensable major figure in Dior, and the latter has given him great appreciation; Because he saw it as a bright future in the fashion industry, and that he was able to build a great and distinctive future.

After three years of work alongside Dior, the decisive moment came, the sudden death of Christian Dior, and Laurent at the age of 21, and he was chosen; To complete the distinguished march and take over the management of the Dior Fashion House, to be the youngest fashion designer to take this position throughout history. It is a major challenge for a young man in the prime of life, and at the beginning of his career.

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New designs:

A few months after the death of Christian Dior, his fashion house announced its first new show, under the full supervision of the new coach, Yves Saint Laurent, who accepted the difficult challenge, and was able to amazes the world with this show, in which the sophistication mixed with the femininity that Dior became famous for. And modernity with renewal. Laurent presented new designs that the world has not known before, such as: straight lines designs, more light fabrics, such as chiffon and satin. In this show, new shoulder designs, most notably the swollen shoulders.

The world was known from the Eve Saint Laurent, the fluffy dresses, which were characterized by multiple layers of light fabrics, which give the dress a sense of dirt and tenderness. It is less official than the designs, which the house previously presented.

Full independence:

After three full years in the Dior Fashion House administration, specifically in 1961, this feat designer had to move to the full independence stage, and opens his own house “Yves Saint Laurent”, the name that is still participating in the top of high -end brands to this day.

One year after the establishment of the house, the first show of the Yves Saint Laurent Group, which included – as it was known – was launched – a mix between modernity, comfort, and traditional classicism, which distinguishes this mark so far.

The women’s suit is one of the greatest things that Eve Saint Laurent presented to the fashion world, as it was not known before creating it, and although he started working with this idea while he was in Christian Dior, he officially launched it years later, and it was a mark registered for him and his fashion railway .

The women’s suit has a great challenge to all the rules of traditional fashion, and many described it as a rebellious design on customs and customs, but through which it was able to completely change the view to women’s fashion, so the women’s suit consisting of a jacket and pants crossed the strength of women, their independence, and their ability to make the difference.

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Retirement .. and death:

After many years of work, brilliance, excellence and uniqueness, accompanied by health and psychological problems, and great isolation, the international designer, who changed the rules of fashion, throughout history, decided to declare his retirement and stop working completely.

In 2002, the fashion world lost one of its best pioneers throughout the ages, who made it a history, present and future, and presented immortal designs and amazing innovations. Yves Saint Laurent announced his retirement permanently. In 2008, Laurent left this world, after he changed the features of the modern fashion industry, leaving a tremendous legacy and a brilliant name in his brand, which is still one of the most important fashion signs, and the most famous of which is this time.

A continuous march:

Since his retirement, through his death, the management of the “Yves Saint Laurent” has successfully managed a group of the most prominent fashion designers in the world, Tom Ford, which was followed in 2004 Italian Stefano Felin, and was known to be the protector of the Yves Saint Laurent heritage. In 2012, the Algerian Algerian designer Hedy Suleiman was appointed as creative director of the house, and his era witnessed great criticism leveled at him, due to the many changes he made in the designs of the house, but he was yet able to introduce modernity and put a contemporary touch on the fashion of the house. In 2016, Suleiman left the house; To his place came to the Belgian fashion designer of Italian origin, Anthony Fakarilo, who was able to restore the house with her soul and threw it with its bold and exciting designs, which brought the house one of the most important fashion houses in the modern era.

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