Stars pierre niney, guillaume gallienne. Directed by jalil lespert, who has won numerous film fest awards. Based on the novel by laurence benaim. YSL as a young, single man, who is already designing dresses for friends and family. He quickly starts working for dior, and climbs his way up the designer ladder. At a very young age, he becomes creative director at dior. We hear the voice of his partner pierre berge, talking about selling the art collection that they had built up together, now that YSL was "gone". They were still business partners for many years after the breakup, according to wikipedia dot org. And now we're in flashback, showing us how we got here. We do see that YSL is extremely shy, and likes to do one task at a time, mainly drawing his new designs; he is painfully shy, and doesn't like meeting with the press. When pushed, he shows anxiety and anger, and today, would probably be on heavy anxiety meds. About an hour in, we start to see him drinking and drugging, which was also the downfall of halston. Was the loss of new ideas a result of the drink and the drugs, or the other way around? Only he knows for sure. It's well done, catches the highlights and low points of YSL's life.
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