In the vein of those “impossible conversation” books and exhibitions, designer Anthony Vaccarello asked himself: What if Yves Saint Laurent met Robert Mapplethorpe? (A 1983 YSL men’s ...
Saint Laurent offers a radical proposition: thigh-high boots for men ... from Yves Saint Laurent’s archive — pinned over Mr. Vaccerello’s shoulder backstage was a decades-old black-and ...
A meeting in the very early 1980s between Yves Saint Laurent, the undisputed (if oftentimes dissolute) king of Paris haute couture, and Robert Mapplethorpe, the prince of the New York art world— and ...