Fabulous portraits of New York’s Neo-Burlesque dancers taken by Leland Bobbé in his New York City studio between 2010- 2011…

In 1954 an unknown Yves Saint Laurent aged 18 and Karl Lagerfeld aged 21 a first prize at a fashion design show organized by the International Wool Secretary in a Parisian bar. Karl LAGERFELD was awarded in the coat category and Yves SAINT LAURENT in the dress category. Colette BRACCHI received the first prize in the suit category. The Young Yves Saint Laurent, First Prize Laureate, Dress Category, In The Fashion Drawings Contest Organised By The Secretariat International De La Laine (Wool International Secretariat)….

Fantastic pictures from 1949 of designers making the garments, models wearing them and shoppers watching them model them in New York…

A look back at the Haute Couture shows of the 1980’s….

French designer Yves Saint Laurent shares a laugh with female models, on Wednesday, July 25, 1979 in Paris, before the start of his 19791980 fall-winter Haute Couture fashion show in Paris…