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1996 Yves Saint Laurent Limited Edition Poster #2390678

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:63.30 USD Estimated At:0.00 USD
1996 Yves Saint Laurent Limited Edition Poster #2390678
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From a private collection, these posters (there are 9 in all, from 1988-1998 ? every year but 1990) are in excellent condition and have never ? to the best of our knowledge and research ? been available on the open market. Produced by Yves Saint Laurent on an annual basis and made available to his close friends and intimates as a Christmas gift, these posters are incredible timepieces of exceptional beauty. While each poster incorporates the word ?love? in it, the designs are as individual as the designer himself.
We are selling them individually, and have priced them bearing in mind their condition, their rarity, and their beauty.
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In 1998, Time Magazine wrote of Yves Saint Laurent : ?Saint Laurent's signature pieces--the smokings, pantsuits, safari wear--have become staples in fashion. The androgynous look that he returned to again and again over the years found its way into recent collections from design houses such as Gucci and Prada.

Many of the designers who followed Yves Saint Laurent readily acknowledge his influence on their careers. From Christian Lacroix to Jean Colonna, they paid tribute to him in a book published in conjunction with a photographic exhibition put on in New York earlier this year. Marc Jacobs, the hip New Yorker who is creative director for Louis Vuitton, recalled that seeing people dressed in YSL in the 1970s inspired him to pursue a career in fashion. "Saint Laurent's fashion," he says, "no longer provokes a shock of novelty, but Yves ...
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<tr><td>Condition:B+</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1989</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:France</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:23</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:19.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:1996 Yves Saint Laurent Limited Edition Poster</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:paper</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Montreal, Quebec</td></tr>
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