In recent years, a new designer documentary has sprung each spring. Ultrasuede, a Halston profile, premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and Matt Tyrnauer unveiled The Last Emperor, his extended close-up on Valentino, the spring before.Last night, at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of L’Amour Fou, Yves Saint Laurent had his turn. Director Pierre [...]

There are no merry, over-the-top fashion moments of pugs and private planes in Pierre Thoretton’s L’Amour Fou, a documentary about the relationship between Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent. In fact, Thoretton’s film, which premieres tomorrow night at the Tribeca Film Festival, is quite the opposite of Matt Tyrnauer’s 2008 film The Last Emperor, on [...]

Last year’s giant Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at Paris’ Petit Palais drew raves, but many missed seeing a recap of Rive Gauche, the designer’s ready-to-wear collection, which was the first foray of a French couturier into mass-produced clothes when it launched in 1966. Ask and you shall receive. The designer’s longtime partner, Pierre Bergé, pulled [...]

Marrakech is what it is now—including home of the annual Marrakech International Film Festival, which has been unfurling the red carpet this past week for the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Marion Cotillard, and Eva Mendes—thanks in part to Yves Saint Laurent. And to a great extent, the iconic designer’s legacy is what it is thanks [...]

The first day of Paris fashion week is usually judged too early for a bash, but you’d never know it from the crowd that crammed into Vincent Darré’s tiny interiors shop, Maison Darré, yesterday. There—packed to the rafters, almost, and spilling into the street—were Catherine Deneuve, Diane von Furstenberg, Pierre Bergé, Christian Louboutin, Mario Testino, [...]

The Forbes Celebrity 100 list is out, and models are well represented. Gisele (pictured; #85), Heidi Klum (#86), and Kate Moss (#91) all made the list—though, we have to admit, in the lower rungs. You’re gonna need to hustle to catch up with Taylor Swift (#12), ladies! [Forbes]Prada is reportedly again considering an IPO, a [...]

Since the death of Yves Saint Laurent (pictured at work, above) in 2008, there’s been no shortage of tributes, headlines, and homages. But the Saint Laurent retrospective, opening this Thursday at Paris’ Petit Palais, is the biggest yet. The show includes 307 couture pieces in pristine, barely worn condition, from the vaults of the Fondation [...]

Pierre Bergé is preparing to throw open the doors of the boudoir: His forthcoming book, Letters to Yves, will reveal the steamier side of his decades-long relationship with Yves Saint Laurent. Given YSL’s penchant for stripping down for the cameras—as in his famous ‘71 fragrance ad—we don’t think he’d mind the curtain being thrown back. [...]

We suspect that more than one guest in the editor-heavy crowd at last night’s ANDAM (National Association for the Development of Fashion Arts) Fashion Award presentation and 20th anniversary celebration was there for organization president and éminence grise of French fashion Pierre Bergé. “I know there are people here tonight from many places,” said Bergé. [...]

The five-volume, 22lb, 200-euro boxed catalogue of the sale of the century had nearly sold out before the doors of the Grand Palais opened to Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent’s friends on Friday night. Supporters—ranging from petites mains to French high society and selected A-listers (plus a few unabashed line-jumpers)—were among the 2,500 guests [...]