Mirror and Secrets

Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio

Mirror and secrets

The little Saint Laurent got here yesterday. To my amazement, at least twenty of the fifty drawings he brought me could have been Dior.

Michel de Brunhoff, director of Vogue, about Yves Saint Laurent to his editor. From the book Yves Saint Laurent's studio - mirror and secrets by Jeromine Savignon

“Gustav Zumsteg, my ally, my friend and my partner. I made my finest dresses in his fabrics. His talent was often an endless source of inspiration.” Yves Saint Laurent about Gustav Zumstag, his fabric designer from Abraham ”

“I like to see a model move in my clothes, the way she brings them to life, or if they aren’t right or final, the way she rejects them. A good model can bring fashion forward ten years.”