One of the most striking things about the vision of Yves Saint Laurent was its entirety: Saint Laurent imagined a woman from head to toe, re-engineering an idea of beauty with a force few others could muster. The result was that every facet of a look, from jewellery to the knot of a bow to the dot of a veil, could be considered recognisably ‘Saint Laurent’. It meant many women could buy into a piece of the dream – it’s modern brand building, but as pure creativehellip;

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