It showed an insecure personality, which took it to the consumption of tranquilizers and sleeping pills, after big depressive crises.
He was the only designer who managed to cross the line between two centuries.

Yves Mathieu Saint-Laurent, was born in Orán, Algeria in 1936, dying in Paris, this year. His father was lawyer Charles Mathieu Saint-Laurent, and his mother Lucienne Andrée Saint-Laurent.

It was presented to Christian Dior for Of Brunhoff, the Director of the Magazine Vogue; in 1954 it began to work for him, up to the death of this one happened in 1957. Yves happened to be his heir, and when he was nominated the Director of the signature, presented his first collection, which was roundly successful.

In 1960 it had to leave his position in the signatures Dior for having to expire with the military service, but to a little time, epoch of the war of Algeria, had his first big depression, by what he had to be hospitalized in a military psychiatric establishment.

In this space, it was replaced by his assistant Marc Bohan, who was nominated the Director of the House Dior. This disliked it so much, that decided to demand them, and fought until it achieved that they were paying to him an indemnification, which it used, together with Mack Robinson, in the creation of its own company YSL, and in 1962 it threw his first collection.

He was the creator of the tuxedo, now classic pledge.

It created an androgynous style trying to find the equivalent man suit for the women.

Such a which Bergé said not long ago:

Chanel gave the freedom to the women, Yves Saint Laurent gave them the power.

It is of public knowledge the tendency that it had to the depression and to the use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills.

It moved back in January, 2002, remaining imprisoned to a wheelchair, and his appearances in public were already almost nonexistent.

Yves Saint Laurent was one of the most successful designers of the XXth and XXIst Century, the only one that managed to cross the line of two centuries.