Still from the film, Yves St. Laurent: His Life and Times

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Yves Saint-laurent: His Life and Times

Director: David Teboul

Cast: Yves Saint-Laurent, Lucienne Mathieu Saint-Laurent, Pierre Berge, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Loulou de la Falaise, Catherine Deneuve

(Empire Pictures, 2004) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 25 January 2005

[15 June 2007]

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

For Yves Saint-Laurent, clothes are a way of life and not a way of dressing; you may be wearing the most anodyne of dresses, but if you walk with one hand in your pocket then you create a mind-set.

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