Beginning his career in the late 1950s as the head fashion designer at the internationally renowned House of Dior in Paris, Yves St. Laurent (born 1936) quickly rose to become one of the most talented designers of haute couture of the twentieth...

Paris couturier who was revered as a genius but considered himself a 'crazy mixed-up man' Revered internationally as the most important couturier of modern times, Yves Saint Laurent was a master of feminine tailoring who rewrote the rule book on the way women...

YVES SAINT LAURENT This is the year for Yves Saint Laurent--the 10th year, to be exact, in which Saint Laurent has been a major name in the American men's wear market. And with the fall 1984 collection, the YSL team has made...

Nan Kempner was a clotheshorse extraordinaire: closets and closets full of haute couture. During a three-day auction, many would-be fashionistas were able to snatch up some of the socialite's fineries, paying from $125 to upward of $11,000.The more than 60 pieces of wardrobe, featuring Kempner's...

Fashion designer Tom Ford has bought mineral rights beneath his Galisteo ranch southeast of Santa Fe in an attempt to protect his land from possible oil exploration in the region.Ford paid the state Land Office about $84,000 earlier this year to purchase the mineral rights...