A Financial Times Book of the Year: An intimate exploration of Yves Saint Laurent's creative
world captured by photographer - and son of the couturier's right-hand woman Anne-Marie Muñoz
- Carlos Muñoz-Yagüe. Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out presents an extraordinarily intimate
insight into a fascinating world of creativity in the latter sumptuous phase of Saint
Laurent's career between 1989 and his final collection in 2002. The book offers a
comprehensive and multi-faceted exploration of the life of an haute couture house: from
informal atmospheric portraits of Yves Saint Laurent at work in his studio drawing and
creating to the behind-the-scenes work of the 'petites mains' in the ateliers the skilled
army of artisans whose activity is rarely documented. The house's world-famous models also
feature captured during pre-collection fittings in the house's grandiose salons and in
electric backstage moments before the shows. Private archive materials - letters documents
drawings and ephemera - that situate the protagonists and give context to the unique position
that the young Carlos enjoyed as a 'fly on the wall' in this rarefied universe are also
included in the book and published here for the first time. A moving and visually stunning
tribute to the iconic Yves Saint Laurent house as you've never seen it before Yves Saint
Laurent: Inside Out will be a must-have for fashion and photography fans.
