"Yves Saint Laurent " 1983 Ex-Libris: Elsa Klensch
$350
[192] pp.
MMA/ Clarkson N. Potter
1983
12 1/4" x 9 1/4"
Ex libris Elsa Klensch (Signed on FFEP w/ bookplate)
Elsa Klensch (21 February 1930 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian-American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion.
She was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001.
The exhibition catalogue for the 1984 MET retrospective of the work of Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition marked twenty-five years of Saint Laurent's career and was the first show at the Costume Institute to be given to a living designer. The catalogues includes many new and archival photographs, including several colour images of Dior's designs taken especially for the book by Duane Michals. There are contributory texts by Diana Vreeland, Rene Huyghe, Pierre Berge, Paloma Picasso-Lopez, Marella Agnelli, Catherine Deneuve, and by the designer himself.