Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design & Photography

Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design & Photography is a beautiful fashion book for anyone who loves haute couture, fashion photography and design. Published by Abrams, this English-language volume brings together Yves Saint Laurent’s unmistakable style and the work of leading photographers including Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and William Klein.

Across 232 pages, you can explore 135 photographs that capture Saint Laurent’s influence on fashion from 1962 to 1988. His designs were worn by icons such as Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Mounia and Veruschka, making this an inspiring coffee-table book as well as a valuable source of fashion history, styling ideas and visual research.

Saint Laurent had an exceptional eye for the spirit of his time, and this book shows how his haute couture and ready-to-wear pieces helped shape the look of entire decades. If you enjoy fashion, photography and creative inspiration, this is a title you will return to again and again.

A thoughtful choice for students, collectors, designers and anyone looking for a stylish reference book full of imagery, context and lasting inspiration.