Catherine Deneuve Is Selling Her Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Couture at Christie’s in Paris—See the Highlights Here
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Catherine Deneuve Is Selling Her Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Couture at Christie’s in Paris—See the Highlights Here
Pierre Bergé once quipped that his partner Yves Saint Laurent was “born with a nervous breakdown.” While it’s true that the designer’s health was marked by peaks and valleys, he had an undeniable star power that he wasn’t unaware of. (In 1971 Saint Laurent posed au naturel in a Jeanloup Sieff–shot advertisement for his first men’s fragrance.) Just as the designer had star power, so did his work, which remains among the most referenced today, both at his namesake house, now headed by Anthony Vaccarello, and elsewhere. Marc Jacobs’s Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 collections were in some ways outspoken odes to Yves.
A man of many muses, Saint Laurent met his match in Catherine Deneuve, a glittering presence in the pantheon of movie—and style—greats. Now, during the Spring 2019 Paris haute couture shows, Deneuve, who remains a front row regular, will sell her Saint Laurent archive at Christie’s; there will be two ways to buy: through an online sale that runs from January 23–30, and the live sale of couture on January 24. The tagline for the sale, “40 ans de mode et d'amitié (40 years of fashion and friendship),” speaks to the long-standing personal and professional relationship.
Neither Saint Laurent nor Deneuve were fixed in the firmament of French history when they first met in 1965. When Vogue introduced the actress to its readers in 1964, it wrote: “Catherine Deneuve might be simple: She may be as simple as the ABC . . . from which, of course, a whole language can be made.” By 1966 the magazine had labeled her a “dream girl.” In 1965, Deneuve turned to Saint Laurent for a dress in which she could meet the English Queen. And so their story started, and it played out not only in IRL, but also on-screen. The actress suggested that Saint Laurent design her costumes for Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour.
There’s lots for fashion- and cinephiles to drool over in the catalogue, a selection of which is shown above. The sale includes an ensemble from the the designer’s famed Ballet Russes collection, a suit with a Cubist motif, a gown from 1988 with a golden dove at the shoulder, and, bien sûr, several smokings. Red carpet watchers will be familiar with looks such as the black sequined stunner Deneuve wore when she was at Cannes in 2000 to promote Dancer in the Dark with the Marjan Pejoski–clad Björk. It goes without saying that Deneuve was the picture of chic.
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