Yves Saint Laurent Inside Out

A Financial Times Book of the Year: An intimate exploration of Yves Saint Laurents creative world, captured by photographer and son of the couturiers right-hand woman, Anne-Marie Muoz Carlos Muoz-Yage. Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out presents an extraordinarily intimate insight into a fascinating world of creativity in the latter, sumptuous phase of Saint Laurents career, between 1989 and his final collection in 2002. The book offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted exploration of the life of an haute couture house: from informal, atmospheric portraits of Yves Saint Laurent at work in his studio, drawing and creating, to the behind-the-scenes work of the petites mains in the ateliers, the skilled army of artisans whose activity is rarely documented. The houses world-famous models also feature, captured during pre-collection fittings in the houses grandiose salons and in electric backstage moments before the shows. Private archive materials letters, documents, drawings, and ephemera that situate the protagonists and give context to the unique position that the young Carlos enjoyed as a fly on the wall in this rarefied universe are also included in the book, and published here for the first time. A moving and visually stunning tribute to the iconic Yves Saint Laurent house as youve never seen it before, Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out will be a must-have for fashion and photography fans.