Dear ChangeFashion,

This evening I went to see the movie Yves Saint Laurent: L’Amour Fou.

I think it is a fantastic documentary, that gives an overview of the relationship between Yves Saint Laurent and his partner for life, and business Pierre Bergé. I was blown away by the passion for fashion of Saint Laurent, and also his personality. Bergé says: “He was only really happy two days in a year, when he received the applause from the public during the finales of his S/S and A/W collection”. The extremely shy Saint Laurent was in his twenties when he became a superstar in the fashionworld. The youth he missed was replaced with alcohol and drugs.

However this was not a documentary full with sensation and drama, it was very touching to hear from Pierre Bergé how they both started their fashion house and gradually became more and more succesful, and how all of this influenced their personal relationship: bittersweet.

The film also shows very nice fragments with an overview of the impressive oeuvre of Saint Laurent’s collections. I loved the most the scene with the costume he designed for the French prima ballerina, actress and chanteuse Zizi Jeanmarie. I could not find a Youtube-movie on this scene, but here is some pictures I found of the outfit. Saint Laurent designed a lot of costumes especially for her, and I believe she was also a muse for him.

If you have the opportunity to see the documentary, I can only reccommend you go and see it! Here’s the link to the trailer.