What if Yves Saint Laurent met Robert Mapplethorpe, Anthony Vaccarello asked himself, yielding a collection melding conservative chic and subversive elements.

As a biopic of Yves Saint Laurent, the man that changed the way women’s clothes are seen and consumed forever, it’s not a particularly successful. But where it does succeed is as an extensive ...

“There is a slightly dangerous side to Mapplethorpe that we can also find in Yves Saint Laurent,” Vaccarello said. “A rather classic man, so always in a suit and tie. It’s something that I still want ...

while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline from the window of swanky corner office befitting the real-life Saint Laurent man about town, as he’s regularly dressed in the designer. This ...

“Yves Saint Laurent was trying to hold onto his respectability ... offset by the longest leather wader boots worn by any man ever. (Well, in daylight, at least.) It’s a look, said Vaccarello ...

In creative director Anthony Vaccerello’s time at the helm of the French fashion house, he has grown a consistent pattern of always having signature silhouettes with cutting-edge styling in any given ...