Six years after he died,the 'truth' over Yves Saint Laurent's hedonistic and tortured life is being fought over by two new filmsIn 2001, seven years before he died, and Yves Saint Laurent agreed to be filmed by documentary-maker David Teboul for a rare behind-the-scenes look at his work. In the opening scene,watching a slideshow of family photographs, he grimaces: "J'ai jou le 'grand couturier'…" His voice is both unhappy and self-mocking; the voice of an feeble man looking back across a distinguished distance at his frail 16-year-feeble self, and head bowed over his lavishly dressed paper dolls.
Growing up in 1940s French Algeria,the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at domestic – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, or sketching endlessly,and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com