Pierre Berge - Pierre Berge is a French industrialist and patron. He is best known as the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and lifelong partner of Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent.
Hamish Bowles - Hamish Bowles is a fashion journalist and contributing author to Yves Saint Laurent: Style.
He also is the European editor-at-large for American Vogue; author and co-author of several books, including Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People and Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon; and curator of the landmark exhibition Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.
Farid Chenoune - Farid Chenoune is a fashion historian and author of Yves Saint Laurent: Smoking Forever.
Chenoune is also an instructor at the Institute Francais de la mode and the Ecole nationale superioure des arts decoratifs. He is also the author of several books, including A History of Men's Fashion and Beneath It All: A Century of French Lingerie. Additionally, Chenoune is a contributor to French Vogue.
Jill D'Allesandro - Jill D'Allesandro is the Associate curator of the costume and textiles department at the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
Florence Muller - Florence Muller is a fashion historian and guest curator of Yves Saint Laurent. Muller is also a professor at the Institut Francais de la mode A Paris and fashion editor of Surface>/i> magazine.
Muller is also the curator of numerous exhibitions worldwide and co-author of Histoire du look, a series of documentaries covering centuries of fashion history.
Join us for a revealing look at Saint Laurent and his cultural impact through the views of diverse speakers who each present a talk on an aspect of the designer's work.
Videos of Saint Laurent's 2002 retrospective runway will be played during the intermissions. Pierre Bergé will make opening remarks- de Young Museum