This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Yves Saint Laurent It explores the collections themselves, organised chronologically.
Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with a gallery of carefully curated catwalk images.
These showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs - and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway.