The fashion house officially closed in 2002. While the company no longer exists, the brand still survives under Gucci’s aegis. Today, since Tom Ford’s retirement, it is designer Stefano Pilati who signs the prêt-à-porter line.
Like Chanel, Saint Laurent created a unique style, for decades he was the symbol of the most refined, modern and innovative elegance. He was the first, during the 1960s, to understand that high fashion find inspiration in the street and not be only a self-referencing reality, a world closed in on itself . The 1958 collection created a stir with its debut, when as Christian Dior’s successor, he presented a gritty and irreverent silhouette in Avenue Montaigne’s elegant salons, not very politically correct for the sartorial conformity of the time.
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