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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0843171005265
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Empire Pictures
Manufacturer: Empire Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Empire Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 163 minutes
Sales Rank: 12673
Studio: Empire Pictures
Editorial Review:
Description:
Two feature documentaries about the man who re-imagined women’s fashion. His Life and Times is an intimate biography featuring extensive interviews with the reclusive designer. 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris is a behind the scenes look inside Saint Laurent’s legendary atelier during the creation of his final Spring line. Together they form 'a timeless portrait of an artist at work - a celebration of human endeavor.' (Los Angeles Times)
Amazon.com:
Few would have guessed that Yves Saint Laurent idolized beatniks, and even secretly desired to become one. But already known for his impeccable taste and proper upbringing, the fashion designer was reticent to change too much from what brought him fame--haute couture. This latest DVD collection packages two documentaries, Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times and Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau to give a thorough understanding of the soft-spoken designer who flourished for 40 years in the fashion industry, even when competing against fashionable upstarts such as Stella McCartney and Zac Posen. The first film concentrates on his early years while the latter focuses on the creation of his final Spring collection. While the less technically savvy film of the two (it's full of awkward editing, shaky footage, and background noise that sometimes interferes with the interviews), His Life and Times offers more content. Born in 1936, Saint Laurent had an eye for style from an early age (At age 3, he suggested his elderly great aunt change her frock, and she listened.) As a teenager, he won a fashion contest that inadvertently got him an interview with Christian Dior. By the age of 26, he opened his own house of couture. While his father never approved of his less-than-manly career choice, and never acknowledged his son's homosexuality, Saint Laurent remembers that his father's last words on his deathbed were, 'Ou est Yves?' ('Where is Yves?'). Though he liked working directly with his staff, Saint Laurent had a distinct way of viewing his collections: Rather than looking directly at the models wearing his creations, he would look at their reflections in the mirror as they were walking toward it; for him, this was a more real way of seeing his clothes. Though both documentaries move at a slow pace--that matches Saint Laurent's shy and well-thought out manner of speech--they provide interesting insight on a fashion icon. --Jae-Ha Kim
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's best to learn from the BEST
Having been in the fashion world for more than two decades, this DVD is the best example of what the Couture World is all about, perhaps a vanishing art but Yves was one of the last great real couture designers and this movie demonstrates that to the best ability. For anyone interested in Fashion and art in general, this is perhaps one of the most interesting documents on how the true couture work, men and women with true dedication to the art of drapping and hand work that produces the small miracles ... Read More
Rating:  - Just give me a fact sheet...
After I saw *Seamless*, I was recommended to see this documentary of Yves St. Laurent.
Other than the interesting facts about YSL and his works, this was somewhat a boring documentary. And it didn't help that it was a long one. I think what made it mundane was that it was slow-paced and that there was a lot of silent conversational gaps from the interviewees. I understand that YSL was old and somewhat ill during this documentary. However, his friends and colleagues were also not quite ... Read More
Rating: - La Couture
The 2nd movie (5 Ave Marceau) is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of YSL's 2001 spring-summer couture collection. For fans of the rarified world of haute couture, we get to see the design process from sketch to toile to final preparation of dresses with all the minute and perfectionist adjustments made to hems, linings, collars, flounces etc. YSL's regular house models are featured including the evergreen Amalia. His muse Loulou de la Falaise Klossowski and also Anne Marie Munoz ... Read More
Rating: - What More Can You Say About Yves Saint Laurent?
This DVD is a wonderful documentary on the life of the most influential fashion designers ever to live. It documents so many various levels of the fashion world and really gives you an insight not only into his amazing life, but truly into the world of fashion. It's a must have for any YSL fan and a must have for anyone who loves fashion and the art that is fashion. Yves Saint Laurent was a man like no other and he will always be remembered as one of the most fabulous men to ever live and grace the every ... Read More
Rating:  - For the Love of the Glamour.
Yves Saint Laurent is one of the greatest French fashion designers and his work has been raved and worned by fans worldwide. In this 2.5 hrs long documentary, we get to have more intimate look at the life and career of genius through the changes of more than 4 decades in the fashion world. With segments devoted to his fashion shows, and interviews on him as well as on others(influential fashion people) ultimately revealed more about the man behind the glamorous haute coutures.
It's very captivating ... Read More
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