Yves Saint Laurent

The fashion house that I will be researching and blogging about is Yves Saint Laurent (YSL).  Some background information about YSL is that it is a luxury fashion house founded in 1961 by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge.  YSL is well-known for their famously recognizable classic tuxedo suit for women. Most of YSL fashion trends have become iconic. In 1999, Gucci purchased YSL brand and paid Tom Ford to create a ready to wear line. In 2002, YSL closed it illustrious couture house and Gucci took over for YSL. In March of 2012, Hedi Slimane was chosen to take over the position of Creative Director of the YSL brand. In recent month Hedi Slimane decided to drop the Y in YSL and changed the brand name to Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent held its first fashion show about three month ago, and it featured the fall and winter 2012/2013 styles. The spring 2013 show will be held in Paris, France, on the 25^th of September.

here is a clip of the ysl fashion show (youtube)