Yves
Saint Laurent was born in Oran. Hence from childhood onwards he was
exposed to the culture, light and colours of a country very different
from France and Europe. It was only natural for him to explore the rest
of the world. Like Xavier de Maistre in his book Voyage autour de ma
chambre and Pierre Mac Orlan in his Petit Manuel du parfait aventurier,
Yves Saint Laurent travelled the roads of the imagination.
This
armchair traveller had the genius for grasping the essential and
rendering it accessible. It is hardly astonishing, then, that the
bougainvilleas of the Majorelle gardens should have wound their way
around couture capes, or Natasha Rostov's wedding gowns encountered the
kimonos of the Empress T'seu-Hi. No more astonishing that Lady
Mountbatten's saris frequent Carmen's boleros or that echoes of the
Queen of Sheba reach our ears from the depths of Africa.
Yves
Saint Laurent's strength was to tame these different cultures and
create modern clothing.
Far from any exotic bric-a-brac he has been
once again the observer and the inventor of his times.
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