Whether he was suited up for his role as Creative Director of Dior in the Fifties or wearing his trademark bug-eye specs at Studio 54 in the Seventies, Yves Saint Laurent was undeniably one of the best-dressed men of the last century. Safe to say then that Yves Saint Laurent - the first of two biopics about the designer to be released this year - will be one of the most stylish of 2014.
However, spanning three tumultuous decades from 1957 to 1976, what was it about Saint Laurent himself that made him stylish and how do you go about translating that to the cinema screen? We called the film's costume designer Madeline Fontaine at her home in Provence to talk dressing star Pierre Niney as the designer, the state of French menswear and Hedi Slimane's recent YSL revamp.
