"I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour―to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk―but of course with luxury and dignity and style." So says Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion designer who, for over a quarter of a century, has been hailed as a fashion genius―"the master of the streets of the world" as Diana Vreeland puts it. Here are more than 200 of his greatest designs, dramatically reproduced in color and black and white. Also included are a revealing autobiographical essay by Yves Saint Laurent himself and fascinating insights by Catherine Deneuve, Paloma Picasso-Lopez, Marella Agnelli and others. [This book was originally published in 1983 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Yves Saint Laurent

Arts & Photography

Agnelli, Marella

VREELAND, Diana

MICHALS, Duane

Bergé, Pierre

Deneuve, Catherine

HUYGHE, Rene.

Picasso-Lopez, Paloma

Boulat, Pierre

Vreeland, Nicholas

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The intimate memoirs of the coolest blonde in cinema history. The startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in Louis Bunuel's Belle du Jour established Catherine Deneuve as one of the most remarkable and compelling actresses of her generation. Forty years later, Deneuve is still widely regarded as one of the grande dames of French cinema. Despite her international appeal, however, Denueve has always chosen to avoid the ferocious glare of Hollywood and seldom allows the public into her private life. In these memoirs, Deneuve takes the reader behind the scenes of her life and career in this fascinating collection of seven previously unpublished diaries that she kept while filming abroad. In her own words, Deneuve charts the shooting of films such as The April Fools; Tristana, directed by Luis Bunuel; Indochine; and Dancer in the Dark. Including a never before published interview with famed director Pascal Bonitzer, this memoir is an intimate look into Deneuve's life both on and off screen, and is every bit as riveting as her movie persona.

The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve: Close Up and Personal

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pegasus Books

"Marvelously opaque diaries of the great French cineaste."-The Observer (London) Catherine Deneuve's startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in Luis Buuel's Belle de Jour established her as one of the most remarkable and compelling actresses of her generation. Forty years later, Deneuve is still widely regarded as one of the grandes dames of French cinema. Despite her international appeal, however, Deneuve has always chosen to avoid the ferocious glare of Hollywood and seldom allows the public into her private life. In these memoirs, Deneuve takes the reader behind the scenes of her life and career in this fascinating collection of seven previously unpublished diaries that she kept while filming abroad. In her own words, Deneuve charts the shooting of films such as The April Fools (1968), co-starring Jack Lemmon; Tristana (1969), directed by Buuel; Indochine (1991), shot in Vietnam; and Lars von Trier's acclaimed Dancer in the Dark (1999), co-starring Bjork. Including a never-before-published interview with famed director Pascal Bonitzer, The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve offers an intimate look into Deneuve's life both on and off screen. Arguably the most compelling blonde in film history, the international star of Roman Polanski's Repulsion has produced a memoir every bit as riveting as her movie persona. Catherine Deneuve's breakthrough role came with Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. She has worked with cinema's finest directors, starring in Buuel's Belle de Jour and Franois Truffaut's iconic Le Dernier Mtro. In 1992 she won a Csar Award and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Indochine.

Carherine Noll

Bizot, Chantal

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Bettina Rheims has been one of the most acclaimed woman photographers of France since the early 80s, when she first showed her sensational female nudes and portraits. Film stars, actresses and artists, models, friends, country fair acrobats and strippers— known and unknown women have posed in front of her lens during the past twenty years. Female Trouble, first published in 1989 by Schirmer/Mosel, presents a selection of some one hundred photographs—brilliant studies on womankind mostly in black and white, her favored technique mastered with a unique subtlety. The common denominator of this collection of photographs is Rheims’ sensitive and delicate relation with her sitters, revealing an extraordinary originality, empathy, sense of style and feeling for both the manifold facets of femininity and pictorial eroticism. The plates are preceded by an introductory essay by Catherine Deneuve.

Bettina Rheims: Female Trouble

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Schirmer/Mosel

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