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 ...
As with the rest of the collection, they trod a masterful line between the classicism of Parisian menswear and something strange and seductive, a mood of carnal desire which has come to define ...