Yves Saint-Laurent

In 1962, following his nervous breakdown, Saint Laurent was released from Dior and started his own label, YSL, funded by his companion, Pierre Bergé. The romantic couple split in 1976 but remained business partners. During the years 1960 and 1970, the company popularized fashion trends, as the beatnik look, safari jackets for men and women, tight pants and high boots thigh-high, including possibly Building the most famous classic tuxedo dress women in 1966, Le Smoking example. Also began incorporating the idea that the use of silhouettes of the 1920 30 y'40s. He was the first, in 1966, to popularize prêt-à-porter, in an attempt to democratize fashion, Rive Gauche and boutique of the same name. It was also the first designer to use black models in his runway shows. Among his muses were Loulou de la Falaise, the daughter of a French marquis and an Anglo-Irish fashion model; Betty Catroux, the average Brazilian daughter of an American diplomat and wife of a French decorator; Talitha Pol, Getty, That died of drug overdose in 1971, Catherine Deneuve, the French actress emblematic, and the Senegalese Guinea-born supermodel Katoucha Niane, daughter of the writer Djibril Tamsir Niane. Ambassador to the couturier during the late 1970's and early 80's was London woman millionairess Diane Casserley Vandelli, bringing the brand increasingly popular among European jet set and upper classes.