PIERRE BERGÉ
VOGUE HOMMES
Was Saint Laurent an artist?
My usual answer to that is that fashion isn’t an art form and is special in that it is ephemeral. It has the decency to die young. That said, you need an artist to create fashions, certainly. And they are few and far between. Balenciaga was an artist to equal Braque. Christian Dior and Gabrielle Chanel were artists. And Yves Saint Laurent was a tremendous artist. Yves had the greatest colour
