Yves Saint Laurent: The Hamish Bowles Collection

The renowned fashion historian’s extraordinary personal collection of vintage pieces by the French couturier.

Introducing Hamish Bowles’ Yves Saint Laurent collection, this catalog is also the first to present work from three stages of the couturier’s career: Dior, House of Yves Saint Laurent, and the SAINT LAURENT rive gauche line.

Bowles was only nineteen when he acquired his first Yves Saint Laurent, a 1969 evening dress, found in a London thrift store. Organized chronologically, the book...