L'Amour Fou (L'Amour fou)

Ladies and gentlemen,

.. I've invited today with great emotion,

.. To tell you important news,

.. about my personal life and my job.

I had the chance to become at eighteen

.. Assistant by Christian Dior to succeed him at twenty-one

.. And be successful in my first collection,

..in 1958

.. There will be forty-four years ago, in a few days.

Since then, I lived to my profession and for my profession.

And I am very proud that women around the world ..

.. Wear pantsuits, tuxedos, coats,

.. Of trench coats: I think I created the wardrobe ..

.. Of the contemporary woman,

.. I participated the transformation of my era.

forgive me for my vanity,

.. Because I have long now believed that fashion ..

.. Was not all for beautiful women

.. But to reassure them, give them confidence

.. for them to assume themselves.

Every man to live,

.. Needs aesthetic phantoms.

I have pursued, sought, hunted.

I've been in many anxieties,

.. A lot of hell.

I have known fear and terrible solitude

the fake-friends.. that are tranquilizers ..

.. And narcotics, the prison of depression ..

.. And the jail of a private hospital

From all this, one day I came out,

.. Dazzled but sober.

Marcel Proust had taught me that ''the magnificent and pathetic ..

..''Family of nervous is the salt of the earth.''

I did not choose this fatal way

.. But thanks to it I'm elevated ..

.. In the sky of creation, that I rubbed shoulders with the

makers of fire, talking about Rimbaud, I found myself

I believe that I found that the most important in life

.. is finding myself

However, I chose today ..

To say goodbye .. to this profession that I loved so much.

Audience applauses.

-As the morning in Paris was young and beautiful

where we met each other.

Was leading you to your first fight.

That day, you met the glory,

And since then, you both walk together

How could I have ever imagined ..

.. That fifty years later, we would be there, face to face

.. And I speak to you for a final farewell?

This is the last time I'm talking to you,

Yves .. the last time as I can.

Soon, your ashes ..

Will join to your final grave

.. In the Majorelle garden Marrakech.

It's with you whom I speak

You, who don't hear me, who do not answer me.

How not to

remember ?

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Three shots ring out.

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* Welcome to the Grand-Palais

*.. To the sale of the collection Yves Saint Laurent ..

"..and Pierre Bergé.

-I know that tomorrow it will all leave.

I know that those ..

.. We can call Ies''undertakers''of art ..

.. will come, and will take ..

.. the furniture, the tables

.. these sculptures, objects of art,

which means part of my soul,

.. A part of my life, and will deliver all this ..

.. to the fire of the auction.

But you know ...

Losing someone ..

.. With whom I lived,

.. With ups and downs, that's another story

.. for fifty years

.. to which I closed the eyes ...

You know, this other things..

by seeing .. these artifacts go away.

I thought a lot about everything.

It happens, moreover, to be ...

sometimes, like this, a sudden sadness ...

But I ... I do not believe in anything.

So, you tell me now

.. more reasons to believe in things,

.. These inanimate objects: ''Do you have a soul?''

I do not believe anymore in the soul.

either mine or those objects.

So I'll check ..

.. The fate of this collection.

I will attend ..

.. To the funeral of our collection.

I did not say ''funeral of These tables and objects,''

.. Because those will experience a new life.

Hopefully they will fly like birds

.. And they will find places where new perch.

"What is it that is beautiful. It's extraordinary.

Are you happy?

You're happy. -Very happy.

Yes, it's fabulous.

-and the fact of not having glasses.

Do you prefer without the glasses?

. . .

-How wonderful! "It is sublime.

For Christmas ...

We are in the library ..

.. Of the Rue de Babylone where Yves went a lot ...

Perhaps to have a little more privacy,

.. And not be confronted, again to masterpieces.

He loved a lot these things that, for him

.. Had a sentimental value.

Callas, of course

Kira .. one of his favorite models,

Loulou de la Falaise, Maurice Hogenboom, Maya Plisetskaya,

..Betty Catroux,

.. Louis Jouvet, through which he discovered the theater at age 13

.. Mayakovsky and Lili Brik and their dog Bulka

.. His dog Moujik, painted by Andy Warhol

.. And there Jean Cocteau and I, in 1956.

That's a photo ... When I met Yves, too.

It's actually from 58

.. That is to say, the year where he presented ..

his first collection .. at Christian Dior.

And then, there is Christian Dior,

the master of Yves Saint Laurent.

He died in Montecatini

.. Italy, of a heart attack

.. But it was buried in Montauroux.

And the day of the burial ..

.. There are two men who did not know,

.. But whose would do soon

It was Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent.

Again, I saw ..

.. A sign of destiny, a benevolent sign

.. Of us together and at the grave ..

.. Of Christian Dior, who was ..

.. A friend that I loved.

At the time of the funeral ...

It must be put in that time.

That was in 1957

.. Christian Dior .. was a national monument.

It was a funeral more than national.

The newspaper headline read: The haute couture ''died''

..''Paris''is no longer Paris, etc..

And that's why the appearance ..

.. of a young unknown,

..of twenty-one year

.. that succeded him, and who was nearsighted,

.. With glasses, on the nose

.. Short hair, lanky,

.. And of a crippling shyness

Was a kind of... thunder.

"" It is official, we can say the House of Dior continues."

A team by Raymonde Zehnacker and Yves Saint Laurent

a young designer, youngest of the house,

Shy and modest, and was trained while studying

directly by Christian Dior.

-The first time I met Yves,

.. It would be better to say I have crossed,

.. Since it was first collection for Christian Dior.

I did not know much in vogue, however,

.. I understood the excitement of the cheers

.. the applause that Dior had found in his successor.

* _Yves Saint Laurent was caught by the crowd.

"he is trying to go through the window.

* We are absolutely compressed as sandwiches.

*Yves Saint Laurent

".. What do you think of the huge success you've done?

* I am deeply comoved ...

* Very happy too

*.. But very excited, thinking of Monsieur Dior.

"The line-Keystone is a success

".. And certainly indicates the leg of a future great designer.

* This is a mode makes us prancing ..

".. to watch spring happening, the flowers, the outdoors,

*.. The sun is a sentimental collection.

*- Bernard Buffet what are you trying to 'do?

"A portrait.

*- Can you show us?

*- How many dresses are in this collection?

*-178.

"And who draws these dresses, Dior's house?

"A single-person.

*- You. Are you happy of this collection?

"-I am not displeased.

-Three or four days later, a mutual friend

.. Marie-Louise Bousquet, representing ..

.. An American newspaper, "Harper's Bazaar''

.. Decided to make dinner Place Blanche

..at La Cloche d'or.

We were five: Bernard Buffet Yves Saint Laurent

Zehnacker Raymonde, the right hand of

Christian Dior, Marie-Louise Bousquet .. and me.

This is probably during the dinner ..

.. That the first lightning ..

.. Of what is called love at first sight ..