When a rather gaunt 65-year-old Yves Saint Laurent announced his retirement from designing earlier this week, what would have caused spasms of gasps a decade ago simply kindled fond and agonizing ...

Ghosts stalk the corridors of No 5 Avenue Marceau. There's Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and Christian Dior. And the Master himself, Yves Saint Laurent, whose studio once occupied this swanky Paris ...

The long-running feud between design legend Yves Saint Laurent and his new corporate masters is over. Saint Laurent announced yesterday that his couture show in Paris on Jan. 22 will be his last. He ...

Yves Saint Laurent himself said it best: “Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.” Founded in 1961, the legendary house that bears his name has given us a repertoire of fabled pieces (the Mondrian ...

Yves Saint Laurent, who exploded on the fashion scene in 1958 as the boy-wonder successor to Christian Dior and endured as one of the best-known and most influential couturiers of the second half of ...