From July 6, 2022 to January 22, 2023, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is honoring the bold and inspiring work of Elsa Schiaparelli, an Italian designer whose inspiration was nourished by a privileged relationship with artists from the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Nearly 20 years after the retrospective dedicated to him in 2004, the museum wanted to revisit his work in order to rediscover to the public his innovative fantasy, his taste for the show and his artistic modernity.
Shocking! The Surrealist Worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli, brings together 520 works including 272 costumes and fashion accessories, compared with paintings, sculptures, jewelry, perfume flacons, ceramics, posters, and photographs signed by the greatest names of the time, from Man Ray to Salvador Dalí, from Jean Cocteau to Meret Oppenheim or Elsa Triolet. This major retrospective also highlights the legacy of the Schiaparelli style with silhouettes interpreted by famous couturiers paying tribute to it: Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, Daniel Roseberry, artistic director of Schiaparelli since 2019, interprets the legacy of Elsa Schiaparelli. The exhibition is presented in the fashion galleries Christine & Stephen A. Schwarzman in a poetic and immersive scenography entrusted to Nathalie Crinière.
It’s the most wanted beauty look of all time: a natural healthy glow. And now, thanks to innovative technology and a new formulation, Yves Saint Laurent delivers the perfect way to own that glow, from dawn to night. Introducing Touche Éclat Glow-Pact Cushion, the first Cushion with mesh technology from the French Maison’s famous foundation family to focus on that exclusive complexion attribute: the healthy glow.
Delivering high coverage with all day comfort; instantly lit-up and even toned skin; offering 24-hour hydration, and in six glowing shades chosen uniquely to suit Asian skin-tones, Glow-Pact is the ultimate couture glow on the go. Luminous skin. Radiant cheeks. A complexion that’s lit-up.
Couture in a Compact: A new radiance demands a new extracouture compact. YSL Touche Éclat Glow-Pact Cushion is suitably dressed in a new pale pink leather-effect casing, complete with elegant top stitching and iconic chevrons. Almost one third slimmer in size than the original Cushion Encre de Peau, it is fully transportable, with a 180 degree opening. Encircled in gold, the slim-line compact is topped with the iconic YSL Cassandre. Inside, the round mirror is the perfect size for touch-ups on the go. Pop it in your pocket. Pull from your purse. Eye-catching, envy-inducing, it is a thing of beauty.
Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Glow-Pact Cushion is available in all YSL Beauté boutiques, counters, and selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.
Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Satin Lipstick Set is a unique three-piece lipstick set available on a limited offer. The holiday set includes full-size products in custom-designed caps that feature three of the most loved shades from Rouge Pur Couture for long-lasting hydration and a satin finish. In just one stroke, luxurious and highly pigmented color dresses the lips with intense hydration and antioxidant care.
Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Satin Lipstick Set includes shades: Le Rouge (a blood red), Nu Transgression (a warm nude), and Rose Celebration (a bubblegum pink).
Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Satin Lipstick Set is available at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.
At French Maison Dior, art meets fashion for the finest causes. The ‘Dior Designer of Dreams’ exhibition at MOCA, Chengdu, until September 7, 2021, provides an absorbing immersion into how the creative directors who succeeded Monsieur Dior – from Yves Saint Laurent to Maria Grazia Chiuri today – have interpreted the Maison’s heritage and moved it forward in their own highly individual ways.
The scenography by Nathalie Crinière highlights the grace of couture creations inspired by gardens and flowers, formative sources of inspiration for a young Christain Dior that still represent indelible codes of the fashion house he founded. The theme is developed further with a display devoted to ‘Miss Dior’, the iconic perfume “that smells of love” and the exquisitely embroidered dresses named after it.
Another room invites visitors to get an idea of the work undertaken in the ateliers as a soaring display of white toiles – the first step in the realization of any couture garment – illustrates the level of complexity and invention inherent in this incomparably important stage.
A special ‘Dior in China’ display turns the spotlight on the host country’s own bearing on that process, highlighted here with Dior Couture designs by Maria Grazia Chiuri in red, which Monsieur Dior deemed “the color of life”.
The iconic lipsticks of Yves Saint-Laurent Beauté are entering the Beauty Tech era with Perso, a smart at-home device that allows consumers to create their own personalised lipsticks. With this smart device, home consumers can create their very own versions of the iconic YSL’s iconic Velvet Cream Matte Finish lipstick.
Created by the L’Oréal Technology Incubator, the Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Sur Mesure powered by Perso usescolor cartridge sets from YSL’s velvet cream matte finish lipstick range.You can choose from four color families: reds, nudes, oranges, and pinks. each set comes with three different pods, allowing you to make endless bespoke shades with a single touch. With this innovation, you at home can create thousands of bespoke lipstick shades with a single touch.
The lid of the device functions as a compact luxury case, so you can take your personalised product along with you when you go out. But the innovation doesn’t stop there. Thanks to an app that can be installed on a phone or tablet, you can try on any shade you wish via an AR lipstick filter, and then after finding the desired shade for your look, the YSL Perso device will create that exact colour for you IRL.
Once you’ve designed your shade, the bluetooth-connected device will do its magic and three squirts of creamy color will appear out from the top, which are then mixed together. You simply press to dispense the shade selected and apply with the accompanying brush. The lip colour is dispensed in a perfectly portioned, single dose for an easy and clean application. If you want to take your new lipstick with you for the evening, you remove the lid of the device which doubles as a compact, allowing you to take enough of the product an on-the-go re-touch of the selected shade in sleek YSL packaging. Genius.
The Perso device was unveilied at CES 2021, an annual trade show organised by the Consumer Technology Association. The French Maison have said, “The new product heralds the future of beauty.” At the moment it is available for limited pre-sales in the U.S. market, but will be launched worldwide by September 2021.
The Yves Saint Laurent Beauté Rouge Sur Mesure powered by Perso costs $299 USD and is available now for preorder on YSL’s website here, and will reach you by early-spring. You can also sign up for the beta tester program (US residents only) to get an exclusive first look. A full product launch worldwide will follow in September.
French Maison Yves Saint Laurent has returned with a new collection of Rouge Pur Couture lipsticks in collaboration with its makeup and fragrance ambassador, actress, singer and model Zoë Kravitz. The range features eight shades inspired by the actress’s favorite cities: Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles.
Lipstick is the best ally for any woman. You can switch moods and express a different version of yourself with just one quick gesture.
Zoë Kravitz
The limited-edition lipsticks are encased in a luxe, shimmering silver tube embellished with the signature YSL Cassandre logo. Arriving in different red hues, each lipstick boasts a beautiful satin finish perfect for your winter makeup looks.
Take a closer look at the offerings below. Priced at $38 USD each, the Zoë Kravitz x YSL Beauty Rouge Pur Couture lipsticks are now available to shop online, and at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.
In 1977 Yves Saint Laurent introduces Opium: a groundbreaking perfume. A revolution in a flacon. A new idea of femininity: sultry, provocative, addictive. In 2014, the iconic Opium’s legacy and boldness continue to amaze: the French fashion house unveils Black Opium, reinventing addiction in a new, contemporary light, reshaping for the modern woman.
A modern, young and vibrant interpretation of addiction. Black Opium, a fragrance like a shot of adrenalin, the necessary energy for a life more and more intense.
To celebrate the festive season, Yves Saint Laurent offers a wild twist on a holiday classic: The iconic Black Opium flacon is now adorned with the wildest YSL Print: The feline sparkling Babycat. Just as bold and glamorous as its ambassador: Zoë Kravitz.
The new collector flacon houses the French Maison’s best-selling Black Opium original Eau de Parfum with its signature blend of black coffee, white flowers and creamy vanilla for a warming and sensual scent, created by Marie Salamagne, Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc. The one gift to put on your wish list or to spoil someone special this season.
Top: pear accord, mandarin essence Heart: vanilla, orange blossom, white flowers Base: black coffee accord, cedarwood essence, white musk, patchouli
A captivating floralgourmand scent, twisted with an overdose of black coffee, for a shot of adrenaline. Energy, sensuality, coupled with that unique YSL edge. The signature black coffee accord is paired with creamy vanilla, enriched by the softness of white flowers and orange blossom, against a base of patchouli and comforting white musk, for a women’s fragrance that bewitches with its trail.
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Baby Cat belongs to this collection and comes in a black lacquered bottle with a bright red sequined animal print (with the pink color of the juice seen through the center of the glittering flacon). This collector’s edition reportedly represents a confident and daring woman who embodies the new spirit of the French Maison.
How to use:
For light intensity: spray in a cloud around your head and shoulders, let the fragrance fall gently around you. For medium intensity: spray in a y-shape across your body, beginning at one shoulder and finishing at the other. If you are wearing jewellery it is a great alternative to spraying your neck. For added intensity: apply perfume directly to your pulse points and / or hot spots (wrist, inner elbow and lower neck). Here the heat of your body will allow the fragrance to reveal its full trail. Include shoulders and back to intensify your perfume trail.
For the winter holiday season, Yves Saint Laurent prepared othercollector’s editions of its best-selling perfumes in flacons decorated with animal prints (like Libre, Mon Paris…..) along with various gift sets and a make-up collection called ‘Dress Me Wild’.
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Baby Cat is available as 50ml Eau de Parfum, at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.
French Maison Yves Saint Laurent will include one more collector edition to the Mon Paris collection. The scent remains unchanged while the flacon is decorated with a new bow and ‘overflowing’ with silver shimmer. Yves Saint Laurent invites us to indulge in the dizziness of crazy love again, with the white chypre floral scent of Parisian charm.
Created by Oliver Cresp, Dora Baghriche and Harry Fremont, the top notes of the composition depict the beginning of love, the middle notes describe the burning love, while the base notes reflect the feeling of infatuation portrayed as romantic love pleasure.
Mon Paris Eau de Parfum by Yves Saint Laurent is the timeless fragrance of a free and passionate woman. A white chypre with challenging sensuality. Let yourself be captivated by the vertigo of Crazy Love.
The sweetness of red fruit (strawberry and raspberry) combined with the rich, fruity notes of pears and juicy citruses (orange, mandarin, and bergamot) are cooled by the Calone molecule, which reproduces light, watery, and airy aromas with hints of watermelon in the opening of the composition.
Datura flower dominates the heart’s white bouquet combined of peonies, orange blossom, and Chinese and Sambac jasmine, while the base creates the rich blend of patchouli heart, Indonesian patchouli leaves, white musk, ambroxan, cedar, moss, and vanilla, intensifying its chypre character.
For this collector edition the iconic Mon Paris Eau de Parfum liquid has been bundled in a limited couture and Parisian edition. The flacon is decorated with dazzling sequins and an out-sized lavaliere like the Parisian icon: the Eiffel Tower.
Yves Saint Laurent’s Mon Paris Collector Edition is available as a 50ml Eau de Parfum from June in a limited edition at selected stores wrldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.
Founded in 1963 by François Pinault, Kering S.A. is a French multinational corporation and conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France. Its portfolio includes luxury brands specialized in the design, the making and the sale of fine products, especially in the fashion, leather-goods, shoes, watches and jewelry sectors: Gucci (fashion), Yves Saint Laurent (fashion), Boucheron (jewels and watches), Bottega Veneta (fashion, leathergoods), Balenciaga (fashion), Girard-Perregaux (watches), Alexander McQueen (fashion), Pomellato (jewels), Ulysse Nardin (watches), a.o..
The Kering Foundation is committed to defending women’s dignity and rights by combating violence against women and promoting women’s empowerment. Since 2009, the Foundation initiated 47 partnerships with NGOs and supported many social projects oriented towards women’s rights. Many of ‘their’ brands have their own philanthropic projects with the support of the Kering Foundation.
Now the Kering Group is playing its part in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in France. In the days ahead, Kering will provide the French health service with 3 million surgical masks, which the Group will purchase and import from China.
Meanwhile, the French workshops of Kering’s Houses Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent are preparing to manufacture masks while complying with the strictest health protection measures for their staff members, with production getting underway as soon as the manufacturing process and materials have been approved by the relevant authorities.
With a view to providing a lasting response to the current pandemic, Kering has made a financial donation to the French Institut Pasteur to support its research into Covid-19. On March 11 in Italy, Kering and its Houses made donations to the four major foundation hospitals in Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany and Lazio.
More recently, Gucci responded to a call to fashion companies from the Regione Toscana for surgical masks and medical overalls, and could be able to donate 1.100.000 surgical masks and 55.000 medical overalls in the coming weeks, subject to relevant authorizations.
On January 28 in China, Kering and its Houses announced a donation to the Hubei Red Cross Foundation to help fight the spread of the virus.
After dropping a range of branded accessories comprised of balls, tennis rackets, yoga matts, brass dumbells and more, now you can have sex but make it fashion with the help of Yves Saint Laurent’s new line of chic couture condoms.
Announced by Yves Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello via Instagram, the branded condoms will be available exclusively at Saint Laurent’s Parisian concept store, Rive Droite. The condoms will be packaged in six different designs ranging from a black-and-white checkered pattern to leopard prints and gold heart emblems. Each design is then stamped with Saint Laurent’s house logo.
On the heels of a star-studded Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2020 show, Yves Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello teased the new campaign on his Instagram. To accompany the release Saint Laurent launched the campaign ‘The Love Affair’, which was shot by famed photographer Juergen Teller. In the image shared by Vaccarello, Polish model Anja Rubik is seen alongside a ‘full frontal’ heavily-inked artist and supermodel David Alexander Flinn, but Instagram appears to have removed it. Truly heart-breaking.
Interested buyers will be able to purchase the Saint Laurent condoms for €2 EUR apiece (approximately $2.20 USD) exclusively at Rive Droite. The French letters are sold out of a condoms dispenser machine at the Maison’s branch at 213 Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris’ luxury shopping district.
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