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* TheFifites: The film begins in glamorous post-war Paris, where the men all wear suits and the women wear Dior, whom Yves works for.
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* TheFifites: The film begins in glamorous post-war Paris, where the men all wear suits and the women wear Dior, whom Yves works for.
* TheSixties: Yves creates a fashion revolution by bringing the mod streetwear of London and Paris to Haute Couture, then turning around and making those designs available to the masses via ready-to-wear. The wealthy Pierre and Yves also become part of haute Bohemian Marrakesh, which in turn inspires Yves's style.
* TheSeventies: By the 1970s, Yves's fully embraces SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll (or more accurately Disco) and his last great collections define the style of that era.
* TheSixties: Yves creates a fashion revolution by bringing the mod streetwear of London and Paris to Haute Couture, then turning around and making those designs available to the masses via ready-to-wear. The wealthy Pierre and Yves also become part of haute Bohemian Marrakesh, which in turn inspires Yves's style.
* TheSeventies: By the 1970s, Yves's fully embraces SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll (or more accurately Disco) and his last great collections define the style of that era.
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* NoBisexuals: Averted with Pierre who displays non-romantic sexual attraction to Victoire. Played With with Yves, who displays no sexual attraction to women but has romantic feelings towards his muses.
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** The film implies the menage a trois with Victoire was short-lived. She claims the three-way love affair lasted for approximately three years. She also says that she was surprised to see her affair with Bergé portrayed in the film because she had, at Bergé's request, kept it a secret up until then. When she inquired with the famously controlling Bergé if she could write about it in her memoir, he replied to her surprise that he trusted her to do so. Accounts differ as to how much Saint Laurent knew of the affair between his muse and lover.
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** The film implies the menage a trois with Victoire was short-lived. She claims the three-way love affair lasted for approximately three years. She also says that she was surprised to see her affair with Bergé portrayed in the film because she had, at Bergé's request, kept it a secret up until then. When she subsequently inquired with the famously controlling Bergé if she could write about it in her memoir, he replied to her surprise that he trusted her to do so. Accounts differ as to how much Saint Laurent knew of the affair between his muse and lover.
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* LoveDodecahedron: Karl Lagerfeld has a crush on Yves who has a pararomantic friendship with Victoire Doutreleau. Yves meets Pierre Bergé who is living with the painter Bernard Buffet. Pierre leaves Bernard for Yves but soon becomes jealous of Victoire. Pierre seduces Victoire, which infuriates Yves. Years later, Karl resurfaces in their lives with his nonsexual paramour Jacques de Bascher in tow. Jacques seduces Yves, infuriating Pierre.
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** Yves's closeness with Victoire rankles Pierre. He seduces her, and everything eventually falls apart.
** Years later, Loulou accuses Pierre of isolating Yves's from his friends. He pleads guilty but tells her that it's because she gives him drugs and he's trying to protect him.
** Yves's closeness with Victoire rankles Pierre. He seduces her, and everything eventually falls apart.
** Years later, Loulou accuses Pierre of isolating Yves's from his friends. He pleads guilty but tells her that it's because she gives him drugs and he's trying to protect him.
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* {{Gayngst}} Downplayed. Yves and Pierre are both comfortable with their sexuality for most of the film. However, in the aftermath of his breakdown, Yves tearfully talks about the bullying he experienced in Catholic School.
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** Pierre's reputation in the fashion world is controversial. He certainly controlled Yves, the brand and the company with an iron fist. Some people view this negatively and Bergé as a bully, while others see his behavior as the devotion of a man who wanted to protect the fragile Yves from fashion's bottom feeders. Since Pierre signed off on this film, he's portrayed as a positive force in Yves's life.
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** Pierre's reputation in the fashion world is controversial. He certainly controlled Yves, the brand and the company with an iron fist. Some people view this negatively and Bergé Pierre as a bully, bully who benefitted financially from his partner's creativity, while others see his behavior as the devotion of a man who wanted to protect the fragile Yves from fashion's bottom feeders. Since Pierre signed off on this film, he's portrayed as a positive force in Yves's life.
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* BittersweetEnding: The film is framed and narrated with an elderly Pierre writing a love letter to the now-dead Yves about their life and their art collection, which is now up for auction. [[spoiler: The last sequences shows an elderly Yves still sketching as Pierre cares for him before fading to a shot of Pierre alone, missing him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The film is framed and narrated with an elderly Pierre writing a love letter to the now-dead Yves about their life and their art collection, which is now up for auction. [[spoiler: The last sequences sequence shows an elderly Yves still sketching as Pierre cares for him before fading to a shot of Pierre alone, missing him.]]
* ManlyGay: Jaques manages to be both TheDandy and a very masculine gay [[note]] In real life he was bisexual, as well as being suspected by many of being gay for pay[[/note]].
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* RageBreakingPoint: Pierre puts up with a lot from Yves, but the affair with Jacques crosses a line for the couple[[note]]In real life, Pierre thought Karl Lagerfeld had sent Jacques to seduce Yves in order to destabilize the House of Saint Laurent and said so, loudly[[/note]].
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* TheDandy: A lot of dandies float around Yves's circle, but the one who really catches his eye is Jacques.
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* TheFashionista: Many appear in the film, as they are Yves's clients. Conversely, Betty and Loulou are seen inspiring Yves's with their personal fashion choices.
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* AdaptedOut: Although she was a great friend of Yves and one of his muses, Creator/CatherineDeneuve does not appear in the film, either as a character or in a cameo.
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** Although he mentions being a dog lover, none of Yves's many beloved dogs appear in the film.
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** Although he mentions being a dog lover, none of Yves's many beloved dogs appear in the film.
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* BreakTheCutie: Yves is conscripted into the army, which causes a nervous breakdown, which causes him to be fired from Christian Dior. It is suspected that the owner of Christian Dior arranged for the conscription so he could replace Yves after the 1958 collection was unsuccessful.
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* BreakTheCutie: Yves is conscripted into the army, which causes a nervous breakdown, which causes him to be fired from Christian Dior. It is suspected that the owner of Christian Dior arranged for the conscription so he could replace Yves after the 1958 collection was unsuccessful. Pierre and Yves successfully sue, and they use the money to start their own house.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Pierre puts up with a lot from Yves, but the affair with Jacques crosses a line for the couple[[note]]In real life, Pierre thought Karl Lagerfeld had sent Jacques to seduce Yves in order to destabilize the House of Laurent and said so, loudly[[/note]].
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* RageBreakingPoint: Pierre puts up with a lot from Yves, but the affair with Jacques crosses a line for the couple[[note]]In real life, Pierre thought Karl Lagerfeld had sent Jacques to seduce Yves in order to destabilize the House of Saint Laurent and said so, loudly[[/note]].
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* FashionMagazine: Throughout the film, there are scenes featuring reporters and editors from various fashion magazines as well as photo shoots for those magazines.
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* BrokenAce: Yves is a fashion prodigy, but it has come at the price of his mental stability. * ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
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* BrokenAce: Yves is a fashion prodigy, but it has come at the price of his mental stability.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
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* BrokenAce: Yves is a fashion prodigy, but it has come at the price of his mental stability.
* ChildProdigy: The film establishes Yves's interest in fashion started when he was three years old. He's hired as Christian Dior's assistant at 19, and upon Dior's sudden death, he's promoted to Creative Director at age 21.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
* ChildProdigy: The film establishes Yves's interest in fashion started when he was three years old. He's hired as Christian Dior's assistant at 19, and upon Dior's sudden death, he's promoted to Creative Director at age 21.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Anyone with a deep familiarly with YSL's history will be rewarded by the presence of real designs and recreations of his legendary homes. Also, the film doesn't stop to explain who everyone is but there are brief appearances by people like Creator/JeanCocteau, Creator/AndyWarhol, Fernando Sanchez and Karl Lagerfeld.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Anyone with a deep familiarly with YSL's history will be rewarded by the presence of real designs and recreations of his legendary homes. Also, the film doesn't stop to explain who everyone is but there are brief appearances by people like Carmel Snow, Creator/JeanCocteau, Creator/AndyWarhol, Fernando Sanchez and Karl Lagerfeld.
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* AThreesomeIsHot: In a film celebrating sexual freedom, there are several menage a trois scenes, most of which are shown to be hot.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Anyone with a deep familiarly with YSL's history will be rewarded by the presence or real designs and recreations of his legendary homes. The film doesn't stop to explain who everyone is but there are brief appearances by people like Creator/JeanCocteau, Creator/AndyWarhol, Fernando Sanchez and Karl Lagerfeld.
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The film was met with mixed reviews due to its rather formulaic rise/fall/redemption storyline, but its lead performances were universally praised as was the presence of Saint Laurent's actual designs. It came out the same year as another biopic about YSL (and [[DisownedAdaptation unauthorized]] this time), ''Film/SaintLaurent''.
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French {{Biopic}} film about the {{fashion designer}} UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French {{Biopic}} film about the {{fashion designer}} UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French {{Biopic}} film about the {{fashion designer}} UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French Language {{Biopic}} of the fashion designer UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French Language {{Biopic}} of film about the fashion designer {{fashion designer}} UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
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''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French Language {{Biopic}} of the fashion designer UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
The film was met with mixed reviews due to its rather formulaic rise/fall/redemption storyline, but its lead performances were universally praised as was the presence of Saint Laurent's actual designs.
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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Played true to the complicated history. Yves is promiscuous, enjoying sex with strangers, friends, acquaintances, and men with whom he is in love. Pierre, on the other hand, refers to himself as being part of the cult of fidelity until he meets Yves. The two settle into an open relationship.
* AdaptedOut: Although she was a great friend of Yves and one of his muses, Creator/CatherineDeneuve does not appear in the film, either as a character or in a cameo.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Pierre getting angry over Yves's self-destruction becomes a central facet of their relationship.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Victoire lays on of these on Yves.
* ArtisticLicenceHistory:
** Yves and Pierre officially ended their romantic relationship in 1976, although they remained business partners, sometimes still lived together, and were joined in a civil union right before Yves's death. It was obviously complicated, and the movie doesn't mention the breakup.
** The film implies the menage a trois with Victoire was short-lived. She claims the three lived as a throuple for several years.
** Pierre's reputation in the fashion world is controversial. He certainly controlled Yves, the brand and the company with an iron fist. Some people view this far more negatively, while others see it as the devotion of a man who wanted to protect Yves from fashion's bottom feeders. Since Pierre signed off on this film, he's portrayed as a positive force in Yves's life.
** The scene where Yves is interviewed in the pool, with Pierre looking on, is based on [[https://youtu.be/_zIfDRJxC98 a real interview]] in which an off-camera Pierre asked Yves the questions. The film mostly uses his real answers, with a few adjustments.
** Possibly to avoid a DownerEnding, the film skips the 1980s and 1990s when the House of St. Laurent lost some of its luster and Yves's health declined. The house remained financially successful, but Yves never achieved the same relevance he had enjoyed early in his career.
* BadassBeard: During their bohemian times in Marrakesh, Pierre and Yves grow beards.
* TheBeautifulElite: This trope pretty much sums up Yves and Pierre's lives of jet setting, fame, money, lavish parties, beautiful lovers and gorgeously appointed homes. It describes Yves's clientele as well.
* BigDamnKiss: Yves and Pierre share their FirstKiss-es on the banks of Seine, beginning what will be a 50 year-long partnership in business and in life.
* BittersweetEnding: The film is framed and narrated with an elderly Pierre writing a love letter to the now-dead Yves about their life and their art collection, which is now up for auction.
* UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}}: Pierre is primarily homosexual and definitely homo-romantic, but that doesn't stop him from engaging in a sexual affair with Victoire.
* BrokenAce: Yves is a fashion prodigy, but it has come at the price of his mental stability.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
* ControlFreak: Pierre takes care of everything and is fiercely protective of Yves and the St. Laurent brand.
* CostumePorn: Possibly one of the greatest examples in cinema, the St. Laurent estate lent the production authentic, historic garments for many of the scenes. Even critics who disliked the film suggested seeing it just for the fashion history on display.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, St. Laurent is committed to a mental institution after being conscripted into the army. Pierre rescues him, but he's never quite the same.
* EthicalSlut: At times, Yves and Pierre's open relationship works well, other times jealousy surfaces, but they try and be ethical with each other.
* EurekaMoment: Yves thumbs through an art book and sees a Mondrian painting...the rest is history.
* FashionDesigner: Yves is one of the great designers of the twentieth century. Christian Dior and Karl Lagerfeld also appear in the film.
* FashionShow: There are several recreated in the film.
* FreakOut: A tragic real-life example, Yves was never the same after his conscription, firing from Christian Dior, and the subsequent breakdown.
* FunctionalAddict: At least through the sixties and seventies, Yves's substance abuse does not affect his ability to work.
* LoveTriangle: There are a few, but late in the film Yves takes up with the young, debauched Jacques de Bascher, causing tension between him and Pierre.
* LustObject: Yves falls in immediately lust with Jacques de Bascher.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Yves is effete while Pierre is a StraightGay.
* ModelingPoses: There are multiple fashion shows and fashion shoots in the film, so many poses.
* TheMuse: Victoire, Betty and Loulou are just a few of the muses who inspired St. Laurent. The film implies him to be homosexual but biromantic in that he engaged in emotional, non-sexual affairs with his muses.
* MuseAbuse: Victoire finds herself in the middle of a LoveTriangle between Yves and Pierre, and she ends up on the end of emotional abuse because of it.
* OnlySaneMan: Pierre is Yves's sanity anchor, and he is only occasionally seen partying. He also continues to wear conservative business suits while surrounded by people wearing the high fashion of the 1960s and 1970s.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Parties at Pierre and Yves's tend to devolve into sex, especially at their Morrocan villa. In one scene, which comes off as rather wholesome, Yves and Pierre make love while one of Pierre's other lovers sleeps next to them.
* ThePerfectionist: Both Yves and Pierre are perfectionists, on the design side and business side respectively.
* PublicExposure: Yves scandalizes the fashion world by posing nude for a perfume ad.
* QueerRomance: The film heavily focuses on the love story between St. Laurent and his business and life partner, Pierre Bergé.
* RageBreakingPoint: Pierre puts up with a lot from Yves, but the affair with Jacques crosses a line for the couple[[note]]In real life, Pierre thought Karl Lagerfeld had sent Jacques to seduce Yves in order to destabilize the House of Laurent and said so, loudly[[/note]].
* SanitySlippage:
** Yves snaps at Pierre early on, uncharacteristically at this point, and its revealed he's gotten his conscription papers. Just the pressure of this is getting to him, and his stint in the army will lead to a full breakdown.
** Later, Yves is drinking too much and complains to Pierre about his stress. He says he put the noose around his own neck, and Pierre is tightening it.
* SecondLove: Yves is Pierre's second love, after the painter Bernard Buffet. He's living with Bernard when he meets Yves, but he soon leaves him for Yves.
* SharpDressedMan: In early scenes, both Yves and Pierre wear immaculately tailored suits. Later, as fashions change, Pierre sticks to his classic, tailored business suits in a sea of more flamboyant dress.
* SituationalSociability: Yves is so cripplingly shy, he can barely walk the runway after his shows and sometimes must be pushed to do so. He's also given to self-deprecation in interviews, which doesn't play well in the fashion press so Pierre has to do the promotion. Yet, when he's comfortable with someone or when he is using alcohol or cocaine as a social lubricant, he can be charming and affable.
* TheStoner: Someone makes some magic brownies at the Moroccan villa, and this makes the already fun party even more fun.
* AThreesomeIsHot: In a film celebrating sexual freedom, there are several menage a trois scenes, most of which are shown to be hot.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Niney and Gallienne as Yves and Pierre]]
''Yves Saint Laurent'' is a 2014 French Language {{Biopic}} of the fashion designer UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent that traces his life from his early days as a fashion prodigy through his phenomenal success in the 1960s and 1970s. Directed by Jalil Lespert, it stars Pierre Niney as St. Laurent and Guillaume Gallienne as his business partner and lover Pierre Bergé. The film was authorized by the estate of Yves Saint Laurent and features the designer's authentic creations in the fashion show scenes.
The film was met with mixed reviews due to its rather formulaic rise/fall/redemption storyline, but its lead performances were universally praised as was the presence of Saint Laurent's actual designs.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Played true to the complicated history. Yves is promiscuous, enjoying sex with strangers, friends, acquaintances, and men with whom he is in love. Pierre, on the other hand, refers to himself as being part of the cult of fidelity until he meets Yves. The two settle into an open relationship.
* AdaptedOut: Although she was a great friend of Yves and one of his muses, Creator/CatherineDeneuve does not appear in the film, either as a character or in a cameo.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Pierre getting angry over Yves's self-destruction becomes a central facet of their relationship.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Victoire lays on of these on Yves.
* ArtisticLicenceHistory:
** Yves and Pierre officially ended their romantic relationship in 1976, although they remained business partners, sometimes still lived together, and were joined in a civil union right before Yves's death. It was obviously complicated, and the movie doesn't mention the breakup.
** The film implies the menage a trois with Victoire was short-lived. She claims the three lived as a throuple for several years.
** Pierre's reputation in the fashion world is controversial. He certainly controlled Yves, the brand and the company with an iron fist. Some people view this far more negatively, while others see it as the devotion of a man who wanted to protect Yves from fashion's bottom feeders. Since Pierre signed off on this film, he's portrayed as a positive force in Yves's life.
** The scene where Yves is interviewed in the pool, with Pierre looking on, is based on [[https://youtu.be/_zIfDRJxC98 a real interview]] in which an off-camera Pierre asked Yves the questions. The film mostly uses his real answers, with a few adjustments.
** Possibly to avoid a DownerEnding, the film skips the 1980s and 1990s when the House of St. Laurent lost some of its luster and Yves's health declined. The house remained financially successful, but Yves never achieved the same relevance he had enjoyed early in his career.
* BadassBeard: During their bohemian times in Marrakesh, Pierre and Yves grow beards.
* TheBeautifulElite: This trope pretty much sums up Yves and Pierre's lives of jet setting, fame, money, lavish parties, beautiful lovers and gorgeously appointed homes. It describes Yves's clientele as well.
* BigDamnKiss: Yves and Pierre share their FirstKiss-es on the banks of Seine, beginning what will be a 50 year-long partnership in business and in life.
* BittersweetEnding: The film is framed and narrated with an elderly Pierre writing a love letter to the now-dead Yves about their life and their art collection, which is now up for auction.
* UsefulNotes/{{Bisexual}}: Pierre is primarily homosexual and definitely homo-romantic, but that doesn't stop him from engaging in a sexual affair with Victoire.
* BrokenAce: Yves is a fashion prodigy, but it has come at the price of his mental stability.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Both Yves and Pierre enjoy spending the money they have earned. Yves is shown buying a buddha without knowing the cost, and their homes are shown to be elaborately decorated and beautiful. They throw lavish parties, wear beautiful clothes and amass a stunning art collection. The film is framed with an elderly Pierre arranging to auction the couple's art collection after Yves's death. [[spoiler: Pierre actually amassed one of the finest private rare book collections in the world. Though this is not directly portrayed in the film, the last shot shows Pierre alone and framed with books after Yves's death in 2008.]]
* ControlFreak: Pierre takes care of everything and is fiercely protective of Yves and the St. Laurent brand.
* CostumePorn: Possibly one of the greatest examples in cinema, the St. Laurent estate lent the production authentic, historic garments for many of the scenes. Even critics who disliked the film suggested seeing it just for the fashion history on display.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, St. Laurent is committed to a mental institution after being conscripted into the army. Pierre rescues him, but he's never quite the same.
* EthicalSlut: At times, Yves and Pierre's open relationship works well, other times jealousy surfaces, but they try and be ethical with each other.
* EurekaMoment: Yves thumbs through an art book and sees a Mondrian painting...the rest is history.
* FashionDesigner: Yves is one of the great designers of the twentieth century. Christian Dior and Karl Lagerfeld also appear in the film.
* FashionShow: There are several recreated in the film.
* FreakOut: A tragic real-life example, Yves was never the same after his conscription, firing from Christian Dior, and the subsequent breakdown.
* FunctionalAddict: At least through the sixties and seventies, Yves's substance abuse does not affect his ability to work.
* LoveTriangle: There are a few, but late in the film Yves takes up with the young, debauched Jacques de Bascher, causing tension between him and Pierre.
* LustObject: Yves falls in immediately lust with Jacques de Bascher.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Yves is effete while Pierre is a StraightGay.
* ModelingPoses: There are multiple fashion shows and fashion shoots in the film, so many poses.
* TheMuse: Victoire, Betty and Loulou are just a few of the muses who inspired St. Laurent. The film implies him to be homosexual but biromantic in that he engaged in emotional, non-sexual affairs with his muses.
* MuseAbuse: Victoire finds herself in the middle of a LoveTriangle between Yves and Pierre, and she ends up on the end of emotional abuse because of it.
* OnlySaneMan: Pierre is Yves's sanity anchor, and he is only occasionally seen partying. He also continues to wear conservative business suits while surrounded by people wearing the high fashion of the 1960s and 1970s.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Parties at Pierre and Yves's tend to devolve into sex, especially at their Morrocan villa. In one scene, which comes off as rather wholesome, Yves and Pierre make love while one of Pierre's other lovers sleeps next to them.
* ThePerfectionist: Both Yves and Pierre are perfectionists, on the design side and business side respectively.
* PublicExposure: Yves scandalizes the fashion world by posing nude for a perfume ad.
* QueerRomance: The film heavily focuses on the love story between St. Laurent and his business and life partner, Pierre Bergé.
* RageBreakingPoint: Pierre puts up with a lot from Yves, but the affair with Jacques crosses a line for the couple[[note]]In real life, Pierre thought Karl Lagerfeld had sent Jacques to seduce Yves in order to destabilize the House of Laurent and said so, loudly[[/note]].
* SanitySlippage:
** Yves snaps at Pierre early on, uncharacteristically at this point, and its revealed he's gotten his conscription papers. Just the pressure of this is getting to him, and his stint in the army will lead to a full breakdown.
** Later, Yves is drinking too much and complains to Pierre about his stress. He says he put the noose around his own neck, and Pierre is tightening it.
* SecondLove: Yves is Pierre's second love, after the painter Bernard Buffet. He's living with Bernard when he meets Yves, but he soon leaves him for Yves.
* SharpDressedMan: In early scenes, both Yves and Pierre wear immaculately tailored suits. Later, as fashions change, Pierre sticks to his classic, tailored business suits in a sea of more flamboyant dress.
* SituationalSociability: Yves is so cripplingly shy, he can barely walk the runway after his shows and sometimes must be pushed to do so. He's also given to self-deprecation in interviews, which doesn't play well in the fashion press so Pierre has to do the promotion. Yet, when he's comfortable with someone or when he is using alcohol or cocaine as a social lubricant, he can be charming and affable.
* TheStoner: Someone makes some magic brownies at the Moroccan villa, and this makes the already fun party even more fun.
* AThreesomeIsHot: In a film celebrating sexual freedom, there are several menage a trois scenes, most of which are shown to be hot.
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