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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 ?

. . .

Three shots ring out.

. . .

. . .

* 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?

(Piano.)

. . .

-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 ..

.. Probably emerged

Still, a few months later,

.. We decided he and me to live together.

At that time he worked at Dior.

He made several collections,

.. Five or six, and unfortunately

he was called to military service.

We were during the Algerian War

.. And I think that his boss at Christian Dior at the time,

.. Marcel Boussac, who owned the newspaper "L'Aurore''

.. A conservative newspaper deeply French Algerian

.. Did not appreciate that the artistic director of Dior,

..Yves Saint Laurent

was reformed at the hospital of Val de Grace.

Yves was in a cell.

I had permanent visitation rights.

One day, the Maison Dior taught me

.. That Marcel Boussac decided

.. To end the contract with Yves Saint Laurent ..

.. And replace him.

So I went to make the good news to Yves ...

He thought for a moment ...

He said:''It only lefts me creating, you and me,

.. A fashion house.''

starting that moment, of course,

.. I had to mobilize

I did not know really not much,

.. But I thought: After all ...

First, I lived a great love affair with Yves

.. And there was no question for me

.. When he was replaced of Christian Dior

.. of doing everything possible ..

.. for him to recover his position,

by opening a fashion house

In a word .. let him do his job

It took a little long, a bit difficult.

All French I could ask ..

.. Were obviously reticent

.. And by chance, I found an American ..

.. Who wanted to invest a bit in Europe,

.. And who has accepted to play this game with us,

.. And take these risks with us.

Because it was risk even Yves being famous.

In fact we couldn't have done this if he wasnt

So he took the risk, and together

.. We started this house

.. And we opened Ie January 29, 1962,

.. Lost in a street of 16eme

Not in this Golden Triangle Avenue Montaigne and so on.

We had no money to that. We are eccentric

But now, it worked, you know.

The 1st collection of Yves was a huge success.

"In a few minutes- the collection will be presented ..

".. Of Saint Laurent, which will be may be the Dior of tomorrow.

The scissors-try.

-Wonderful. Pretty colors.

-That's great.

-A small black coat ...

Maria Teresa the earrings.

-The embroidery is very pretty.

(Applause.)

. . .

"I really had the feeling we had to climb ..

.. A great march, and most important.

I did not say afterwards, that everything would be easy

.. But that all would be possible, and it has been.

You finished the presentation with a traditional wedding dress?

No, because I find that brides... are very annoying

.. In a collection.

I did a lot at first.

"I tried to do ... This is a symbol of the eternal feminine.

It is a young woman covered flowers and hair.

(Applause.)

(''Wedding March'' Mendelssohn.)

. . .

And then gradually, this house has been built.

famous clients..

Arrived ..

.. And together we, he and me ...

Finally I said that without his talent, nothing would be done.

I know the importance that I have in this house,

.. But I mean if I had not been there,

.. Yves would have done something else

.. Because Yves was a genius.

(Jazz.)

. . .

. . .

When Yves Saint Laurent has in 1965

.. Made this collection we called''Mondrian''...

Which was also not Mondrian:

Only .. six or seven dresses were.

We never imagined to have a Mondrian.

For us it was unthinkable.

When Yves ... I remember well, I was in my office.

he asked to call me

.. I arrived,

.. And there was a dummy with a Mondrian dress, the first

.. With the little red square,

.. There on the shoulder.

I was obviously dazzled, amazed.

It was such an accuracy, so it worked.

But I never thought to possess a Mondrian one day

I thought it was a dream.

And then one day

.. A Mondrian arrived and then it was followed by others.

. . .

moving to this place

.. Rue de Babylone,

.. .. Also has

.. Because it was what we could afford

We did not buy, it was not for sale.

We rented.

We were already tenants at place Vauban,

.. We have become tenants here.

And little by little

.. We had the chance ..

.. .. To be able to acquire

.. The works you see,

.. But it did not happen in two or three years.

It happened in twenty years.

You may say that it is not so bad,

.. Yes, but it happened in twenty years, so things ..

.. Came out of order.

These are findings.

These are real findings.

And that's what I love, and that's what we liked,

Yves and me .. in this collection.

That it was made, finally, very slowly

.. And works encountered by chance.

The first is this African bird Senufo

.. .. We have acquired

..in 1960.

And then there are also Ies vases Dunand.

I was with Yves, on the car

.. Rue Bonaparte, and suddenly

.. He shouts:''Stop! I saw two amazing things!''

And indeed, in a shop,

.. .. We found

.. These two vases and fell in love immediatelly

Here we are late 65, early 66.

Then there is the third out.

This is a sculpture by Brancusi.

One day I walked through the door of the Tarica gallery,

.. Where I've never been ...

I fell off

.. Completely nailed in admiration.

I told Tarica:

..''I'll come back and see with Yves Saint Laurent.''

Naturally, Yves fell absolutely crazy whit Brancusi

.. And that's how it is there.

-There 's the basis that goes with it. The base is also Brancusi.

-So ...

What do you see?

And the other

.. You have removed too?

No, one of the plates is broken into two

.. So I havent tried ...

. . .

. . .

. . .

"I found Marrakech with Yves on holiday.

Every year, after his collection ..

.. Of haute couture of January, we traveled.

When we arrived ..

.. In Marrakech, the first 8 days, it rained constantly.

The ninth day was the miracle of Marrakech

.. Which is often.

By opening windows in the morning

.. La Mamounia, you have before you magnificent gardens,

.. And then basically, the Atlas snow was in February.

It was so wonderful I really ...

I say ''I'' because I just convinced Yves.

I went to a real estate agency.

It was the only at the time.

It was a home for sale.

Yves and I became very much in love ..

.. Of this house, Dar el Hip ''House of the Serpent.''

When we left, 8 days later

We owned .. a house in Marrakech.

It was a small house, yellow, in the medina,

.. In a place called the Lemon Garden:

.. it used to have a plot wave of citrus trees.

In Marrakech, people came from everywhere.

The Rolling Stones came often.

And we had this life, there

.. Which was a lot at night,

.. First of all because the summer

.. it was very hot, so we slept ..

.. In the day, and we lived rather on the terraces at evening.

It was a beautiful ..

age, that I remember not with nostalgia,

.. But with great joy.

It was our youth, too.

. . .

What I did?

I read a lot, listening to music,

.. I cooked,

.. While he was drawing.

And then, every day

.. We took the car to anywhere, for 1 hour

.. Just to see ..

.. These wonderful landscapes

.. wich were even more beautiful before.

. . .

-I have been a lot ..

.. in Morocco.

He was very happy and very inspired.

Everywhere, the smell the colors ...

The beauty of the country ...

It is a place ..

.. Where it felt good, at peace.

Yves loved and Betty Catroux

and Loulou de la Falaise.

They are important ..

Quite serious ..

.. In his life.

"I was very impressed When I met them.

I am divorced parents,

.. And I was twenty-one then, in 68.

it was the first time I met a couple ..

That was together .. for seven or eight years

.. And very passionate

.. And with a lot of dramas,

.. Many stories, many theater ...

This is something that I had greatly delighted, their relationship

.. Before I understood Yves talent and all that.

-My favorite poets?

-Pierre Bergé.

-Favorite heroine?

- My models

-Your ideal of earthly happiness?

-One queen bed. Filled.

-Your favorite quality on men?

-The hair.

-Your favorite quality in women?

-the charm.

-The main feature of my character?

-Kindness.

-What I like most my friends?

-the Joy.

-My dream of happiness?

-One queen bed. Filled.

-What would be my greatest misfortune?

Being bald.

-The gift of nature I would like to have?

-A large ... beautiful hair.

-How do I die?

in my queen bed, filled

Laughter in the distance.

is present in my spirit?

Hilarity.

-The thing that was very extraordinary

.. In their company, is the love for Yves,

.. And the total respect for Pierre

Pierre did everything.

-OK! Nicole? Theta?

-Occasionally, he was pissed off: you can not ..

.. Everything.

So this was the right thing to fear the wrath of Pierre

But anyway we knew it was going,

.. Because it was a family.

-Go! Go!

In order!

You first.

Bonjour. Ça va bien ?

And 68 ... By chance, however we were in the Odeon Theatre ..

.. The night he was invaded by students.

So after we came ..

In Marrakech, from elsewhere: there were no airplanes,

.. There was no gasoline.

and Francoise Sagan,

.. Who knew a mechanic, I do not know how...

We left to Brussels by car, and from Brussels

.. We took a plane to come here.

And indeed, the return

.. Yves, two or three months later,

.. Drew ..

.. A very bold collection

.. Stating that the haute couture was dead.

But two years before

.. He created the prêt-à-porter. (ready-to-wear)

Before him

.. No designer had done prêt-à-porter.

-It is not a lot of dresses ..

For young people .. who have no money.

But ...

I oppose this and try ...

to improve things for the future.

-What is your goal by drawing your collection?

What do you think?

-I want people to be happy and good in my clothes.

that's my "but"

that is my goal.

-Although he defended the haute couture ..

.. To the end, because after all, it was his blood, his life

.. That's how he had earned his stripes ..

.. And acquired this reputation,

On the other hand .. He was not deceived.

he never stoped to testing, trying studying

.. All that can be between 20 and 25?

-Of course, it's something missing in my life.

Finally, I havent been younger. That's what I miss.

dont you think we can begin at age 30?

-Unfortunately, I dont think so.

I cant. I am a fossil.

I'm in my cage and I cant get out.

We leave so easily the haute couture.

And in life? Want do what now?

I'd like to travel, from for a long time

.. And do nothing, forget everything

and always come back to see if I want to make dresses.

-To do what, to where?

-Do nothing, especially. Visit, travel ...

Do nothing. Become wise.

-Dont you think its insane to leave all behind?

-Finally, wise in the direction of ...

Basically, I say nonsense.

What I would like it's become very, very young.

I had very early a lot of responsibility

.. And what I want, is to make nonsense

.. In fact, to experience

I was there for entertainment, actually.

Yves was working all day,

and this evening I was taking him for amusements,

.. Evenings talking on the phone.

He told me: ''Life is hell.''

I answered:''You're right, wish it to end soon ...''

That's our kind of relationship, very negative.

Loulou, on the contrary

.. stimulated him: '''You're great, continue ...''

I certainly havent had a positive influence.

Our kind of people

We are born feeling unwell.

We try to get better by all means, and can be reached.

A night together was ...

Go to bars to clubs

Say and do .. a lot of nonsense ...

Above all, escape from reality escape the everyday ...

That's it. Escaping life.

Dar Saada-means Happiness to a couple.

Maybe it was not quite the case.

The purchase of this house

.. Living in this house

.. That was precisely in 1975,

.. that was the year ..

.. .. Where Yves discovered

both alcohol and drugs.

That's one thing I had intended otherwise

.. At least considered for a long time.

Because that amazing pressure you can not

understand easily

.. Because a designer, we imagine the glory,

.. The triumph, the applause, the catwalk ...

But it's a terrible business,

.. Which forces to present his collection ..

.. Not only at fixed date

.. But at a fixed hour ...

Indeed, by some it was a miracle, no never ..

Failed in that hour .. imposed on him.

And I have always said, as a joke

.. Yves Saint Laurent was born with a nervous breakdown,

.. Which is not completely wrong.

I always thought that one day he would breakaway,

and it happened

It happened the night

He draped the models .. in lush fabrics

.. And he arrived the morning looking like a ghost,

Raven wings .

Mixed .. with colors of pie

Color .. very strange ...

he was very, very excited.

he made the ''Opera'' collection

This collection .. very dramatic,

.. The Russian collection with all the shawls

.. Where he made 40,000 drawings, a beauty

. . .

It was in a total frenzy when he did that.

When you have someone which is in a total frenzy

.. But that makes a work like that ...

It is very disturbing.

-We need a crutch to go through life,

.. And it's the drugs, alcohol, things like that.

Pierre and Francois, my husband

Were collapsed ..

.. But they didnt left us.

It's terrible to have two loads like us

.. In life.

Finally it all ended well, thank God.

And thanks to them.

. . .

(Bangs and whistles a fireworks display.)

. . .

-This new perfume called''Opium''

It is called by Yves Saint Laurent ..

.. And marketed in United States by Squibb.

According Squibb, the name evokes

the charm and mystery of Asia.

But for the chinese-american community

.. he evokes the millions of Chinese

who died because of this drug.

-Opium...

For us, the word''opium''is ..

.. As the word ''Holocaust'' for the Jews.

it evokes all that is ugly

.. Bad or unhealthy in the history of our country.

-In the evening he liked the places ...

First, we had this time Set in the beautiful, the Palace

everybody loves him

It was in all these places with peasants

(The Village People, ''YMCA''.)

. . .

. . .

-On March 6, 1976 ...

All night Yves had not returned

.. And when he arrived,

he was .. in a terrible state.

At that time someone rings the door

.. I opened, and saw in the yard two or three guys ..

.. Who said,''Well, Yves?

he is waiting for you, come! We havent finish the night!'

And he left.

It threw me in a kind of shock.

And in fact, that was a few time since things like that

were becoming often

.. I made a couple of suitcases and I went to the Plaza Athénée.

There, I didnt stay long. I spent maybe a month.

Yves wanted me back, I came back,

but this story happened often

Not once.

And one day I decided to leave, and that's what I did.

That's how I went live at the Lutetia.

So as far as I'm gone,

.. It was at the end of his street.

It was very difficult ..

.. To leave him

. . .

La rue de Babylone, is my everyday apartment.

This are my favorite painters:

.. Géricault, Picasso, Matisse ...

Braque...

Mondrian...

It is a museum.

Now they are my children.

Look how Goya is superb "L'Enfant bleu''.

. . .

-Here, take all objects that are there.

. . .

. . .

"What led you want to take your pilot's license?

-Hey ...

Two or three things.

The first was a time when I wanted to take the air.

For that, there's nothing better ..

.. Than up, like that above.

And the second is that we had this house in Normandy

.. And I thought it was Ie best way to go,

.. And can take it without weekends with ease.

. . .

(Slam the hooves of a horse.)

. . .

I sold the house called Château Gabriel,

.. it was not a castle.

But I wanted to keep the dacha

.. Which is a particular place, lost in the woods.

For me, it is a mysterious and poetic.

I do not think this dacha played a big role ..

.. In it.

In his life, yves came here every August,

.. And he isolated himself in the dacha, every day.

he worked a little, took a nap on the couch ...

he was also very attached to there too

You know, we bought this house

.. In the early 80's.

At the time, Yves was not going very well.

But I thought sincerely with this house

.. He was able to start a new life

We also wanted to see a lot people who were there:

.. Françoise Sagan

.. Marguerite Duras, the Rothschilds, who lived just down

They use to make invites that we scaffolds

.. Me and him, and then finally,

.. We saw no one.

We saw no one, because it all rather bored Yves.

and me sometimes they came for a brief dinner

or had a drink with one or another

and in general,

.. There was one or two lunches,

.. For the month of August, Where we did had..

Friends around .. but no more.

When we bought this house he was not very well ..

.. Where to take it.

And then it all started on an idea by Yves.

He wanted to make a Proustian a house

.. That is to say ..

Each room .. he named of a character in Proust

A room called Swann, another called Charlus.

This is the room of Yves and mine.

Y Charlus had, it was Albertine, there was Saint-Loup ... All that,

Swann was a character which greatly fascinated Yves.

When he traveled, he was always call Swann.

This was the name he used in hotels.

To speak to Mr. Saint Laurent, you had to know the code.

If asked to speak to Swann, it was because... he told you

Eyes that stare mines

A laugh ... Your mouth ...

This is the unretouched portrait ..

.. Of the man to whom I belong.

When he takes me in his arms ...

(Applause.)

And we must Mitterrand called, eh!

OK? Vote! Mitterrand Vote! Mitterrand

. . .

"Five, four, three, two, one ...

"François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic.

-The return of the gauche to power ..

Enabled me .. to take a place .

.. In the political spectrum.

Then it was my meeting with Mitterrand.

I must say that all these years ..

Have been for me .. important and rich.

Rich and important because ...

I met a man which was almost exactly ..

.. What I expected in a politician,

.. And a man at all.

And a man at all.

-Yves Saint Laurent

.. We honnor you Knight of the Legion of Honor.

-My relationship with Yves regarding the politics ..

Was wiped out .. that hadn' interest him.

he was still, however,

Very happy about my relation with Mitterrand.

he told me.

And when Mitterrand made him Legion of Honor ...

personaly, at the Elysee Palace,

.. He was deeply impressed.

-AIDS EPIDEMIC OUT OF CONTROL!

AIDS EPIDEMIC OUT OF CONTROL!

-When you picked me in the early 80

To take the presidency .. of an association ..

.. Which had just been created, Arcat AIDS, I said yes.

I said yes immediately.

And then, my commitment was becoming stronger.

And today, you know, I'm president of Sidaction.

(Shouts, applause.)

-LA VOlLA FIGHT AGAINST 'AIDS!

"It is a struggle ..

.. I will not give up.

-Fashion is not a poor relation of artistic creation.

It is instead an art in itself,

.. Which, as such, must be fully recognized,

.. Which, in our country our institutions

.. Must have citizenship.

Which was conducted and conducted by Pierre Bergé,

.. Is of utmost importance.

Without him, the fight for recognition ..

.. Gay rights and the fight against AIDS

.. Couldnt have come to some progress.

The love that bound them, which was known to all,

.. Had symbolic value.

And vis-à-vis young people, in particular,

who Sometimes live

.. In the dark in fear, in anxiety

.. Two people as bright,

Also amazing ..

.. Which are clearly like two lovers, two friends

.. Related to each other, give courage, give strength,

.. And also the nobility of love.

-the disapearing of Yves on the public life, became largelly noticed

.. With his ill-being

.. Which has only grown and grow.

And grow ...

And what was possible before,

.. That I managed to make it work

.. As an interview with a journalist, a television,

Had become .. absolutely impossible.

Absolutely. He didnt want to meet anyone.

He could not do otherwise.

Glory is the grief burst of happiness

That just illustrates Yves.

Yes, it's a loss. Vivid, perhaps, but a loss.

And it was a pain.

This is what fame brought him

.. Suffering that time.

And I can say I saw him happy

twice a year

at the end of his collection

.. When he went beneath the cheers

and the screams of a room

.. Who stood to applaud.

Where is it?! Yves! Yves!

-It happens. That's it.

(Tchaïkovsky, ''Le Lac des cygnes''.)

(Applause.)

-Nicole! Where is Claire she's not on the catwalk?!

What is this story?!

-Bravo !

"It is very beautiful Mr. Saint Laurent.

-It not last long. Even at night ...

the next day he fallen blown again

.. And the day after there was more.

And he took refuge ..

.. Its sad in his solitude ...

That was his life.

And there was nothing to do.

You know, I tried everything.

But he did not.

Between Yves and me, the roles were set at the beginning

.. In all fields all, without exception.

Areas of ​​life, sexual matters

Field of art .. affairs

.. And no one ever crossed ..

.. Into another matters.

If I asked Yves to take care of anything,

.. he would not have been able to do, first

.. And he would have taken me for a fool: 'What am I now?''

That's why, incidentally, I played this role,

.. A role that I was charged, often.

But hey, I made up my mind.

It will take an hour or what?!

"This long-standing ovation ..

".. However, is a tradition.

(Percussions.)

(Ravel, ''Boléro''.)

. . .

(Shouts, applause.)

. . .

*_Mesdames, mesdemoiselles messieurs

"This is the show of Yves Saint Laurent

".. With over 300 models representing the five continents!

-Metternich said:''The great art,

.. Is to last.''

He is a man who understood his era,

.. Better than anyone,

.. who does not love him?

What should we conclude?

I do not know.

probably,

.. a true artists, after all,

.. Live their own lives,

.. Parallel to their time,

.. But at the same time turn their time.

There's the word of Oscar Wilde I really like:

Turner''Before, there was no fog in London.''

The artist who sees it for us.

This is the''Letter from seeing'' of Rimbaud.

It is through these fire setters we touch reality,

.. Even if that reality is hot.

-Here. on your right.

-Hello?

Where you are, Pierre? In the Rue des Minimes?

-see you soon. Thank you.

-Whether you buy or not,

.. If its yours I will be very happy.

-But I'll bet.

-You have a big U.S. rival who wants to have it. Leon Black.

-I know him well. -You can fight.

-He was my partner.

-Because it already collects of Ensor.

-It was at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

"That's it. -Good evening.

-Au revoir. -Au revoir, merci.

-The Noailles ... Jacques Doucet, modeled.

Kugel...

Vincent Lalu...

That's great, that.

90, it was an important year, for Yves.

It has never hidden, and I either, you know very well,

.. He had engaged in excessive: alcohol, drugs ...

And 90, he has a cure Detoxification

.. And that day, he never touched ..

.. A drop of alcohol or anything.

he was then folded on his job.

It was a time, there this time we are talking about

.. The 90's and more ...

The fashion industry has completely changed.

Completely.

Barbara: "My most beautiful love story"

-As far back as I return ..

.. Shadow of my former loves.

The farther the first appointment,

.. the times of the first sentence,

.. When I was fifteen years old.

All white heart claws and knees.

As it was, I was early

Tender love kid.

an unmeasured crazy love (amour fou)

As far back as I can remember,

.. So since

.. I said I love you''''

.. My most beautiful love story, is you.

It was one evening in September,

.. You had come to expect ...

-He retired off the profession didnt want to tell him anything

It's a job which was left to merchants.

("That's when I realized, suddenly

.. I finished my trip.

And I put my luggage.

You came to visit.

No matter what we can say.

I wanted to tell you

Tonight .. thank you for you ...)

And I find it very well,

.. To have done that, very lucid, very intelligent,

.. And in a way modest.

The question that arises, and it is legitimate to ask

If I died, I

Yves .. would he do the sale? No.

he would not have made

.. Because he couldnt have ..

.. that Brancusi Light or what ..

In front of him .. it would have been a sidereal void.

He was dizzy.

And then he would have confidence ..

.. In the future, beyond the

.. I know not what.

And all this would have become ..

.. I do not know what to me either.

-Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.

Welcome to the Grand Palais

.. This sale organized Christie's and Pierre Bergé,

.. The sale of the collection Yves Saint Laurent ..

..and Pierre Bergé.

We begin by Edgar Degas ..

.. And this''landscape''of Italy.

We start the bidding 200 000 euros.

Number 16.

James Ensor, The Despair'' Pierrot,''and we begin ..

.. The auction to 1.5 million euros.

Awarded 4.4 million euros.

Under number 35 Constantin Brancusi

.. The portrait of Madame L.R., we begin to 12,000,000 euros

12500000. 13 million.

14 millions. 15 millions. 16 millions. 17 millions.

20 millions.

21 millions. 22 millions.

Nobody covers Auction of 26 million euros.

Awarded.

Applause.

Suspension extraordinary.

300 000 euros.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 hands!

Okay, so we will start a little higher, at 400,000 euros.

Number 124.

6 000 euros.

12 000. 14 000. 16 000. 17 000. 18 000.

20 000. 22 000.

25 000 euros ?

26 000. 28 000. 30 000.

-The auction is on my right.

In the bottom room!

-What is said on the phone?

30 000 is for you, sir. 32 000. 35 000.

700 000.

It's more you. 720 000?

780 000...

800 000...

It's against you, all over the phones,

Including you, Emmanuel.

This is your last word?

Sold!

Thank you, awarded for 2 million.

-Eileen Gray, this exceptional Chair''dragons''

..from 1917-19.

Let's start the bidding at 1 million 1200000. 1400000.

2 millions.

2 200 000.

10 millions...

14 millions...

16 millions...

18 millions...

18 millions 500...

19 millions...

500...

I award!

Done? Thank you. Awarded.

(Arielle Dombasle In Saint Laurent'''.

Come, my dear, come

Left to die, as being beautiful.

Left to die might as well be in Saint Laurent

Or, as he said, on the wing

.. The nude is the best clothing.

Or both arms the man you love.

While there, I'm fine. when the death calls me

Come on, baby.

Come on.

Left to die, as being beautiful.

Left to die, as being beautiful.

Come on, baby.

Come, Arielle.)