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An iconic photograph taken on a roof-top in Marrakesh, Morocco in January 1969 by Patrick Lichfield.

Talitha Getty became the second wife of John Paul Getty (1932-2003), son of the oil tycoon Paul Getty (1892-1976). She and her husband were part of “Swinging” London’s fashionable scene, becoming friends with, among others, singers Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull and Jagger were invited by the Getty’s to stay with them at their beautiful home in Morocco.  Although, in her lifetime, Talitha Getty, who was only thirty when she died, was not much known to a wider public, fashion gurus of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have often written of her and Marrakesh (a major destination for hippies in the late 1960s, as illustrated by the song, “Marrakesh Express” (1969) by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) as virtually synonymous. The home was filled with lush, green palms and tiled with gorgeous mosaics.

Yves Saint Laurent described the Gettys as:
lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.

She died of a heroin overdose in Rome, within the same twelve month period as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Edie Sedgwick and Jim Morrison, other cultural icons of the 1960s.

The twenty page booklet features all of the images of the Yves Saint Laurent A/W 2008-9 ad campaign, shot by Ines van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. It will be distributed as a free newspaper. Indeed 1 million copies of the third installment of YSL so-called manifesto will be handed out on the streets of New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In a special twist, spreading the message of luxury on the streets is this season getting even more exclusive: the first 5,000 passers-by to collect their copy in each city will find it encased in a limited edition cotton tote bag, designed by YSL creative director Stefano Pilati himself.
The Manifesto will be available between 11am and 7pm on September 6 from the location listed below in London. Start staking out your style spot now.

The manifesto and a short film will launch simultaneously on ysl.com

The 2nd edition of the Vintage Fair will take place in Paris on September 27 and 28 at the Espace Pierre Cardin.
The exhibitors? Didier Ludot with vintage Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, as well as Honey Moon, a New York shop known for its collections of Pucci and Leonard from the 60’s + Sonia Rykiel and Missoni of the 80’s. Don’t forget to look at Renaissance, a store devoted to vintage jewellery such as Dior, Chanel, YSL, Pierre Cardin or Courrèges.

This issue is meant to be dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent. A black and white editorial featuring Karen Elson, Linda Evangelista, Guinevere Van Seenus and Iris Strubegger in a funeral Steven Meisel cover story.

The art collection belonging to the couturier Yves Saint Laurent – who passed away last June – and his partner Pierre Bergé will be auctioned in February 2009. Led by the auction house Christie’s in association with the auction house Pierre Bergé, the sale will take place in Paris.
The collection of both art lovers gathers Primitive arts, enamels, statuettes of the Renaissance, Art Deco furniture and a range of contemporary artists and Old Masters that includes Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse and Goya… Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé took more than 40 years to collect these works.

Yves Saint-Laurent by Andy Warhol (1928-1987/American)

Catherine Deneuve & Yves Saint Laurent

Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71.

Pierre Berge said Saint Laurent died at his Paris home following a long illness.

A towering figure of 20th century fashion, Saint Laurent was widely considered the last of a generation that included Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and made Paris the fashion capital of the world, with the Rive Gauche, or Left Bank, as its elegant headquarters. In the fast-changing world of haute couture, Saint Laurent was hailed as the most influential and enduring designer of his time. From the first YSL tuxedo and his trim pantsuits to see-through blouses, safari jackets and glamorous gowns, Saint Laurent created instant classics that remain stylish decades later. When the designer announced his retirement in 2002 at age 65 and the closure of the Paris-based haute couture house he had founded 40 years earlier, it was mourned in the fashion world as the end of an era. His ready-to-wear label, Rive Gauche, which was sold to Gucci in 1999, still has boutiques around the world. When he bowed out of fashion in 2002, Saint Laurent spoke of his battles with depression, drugs and loneliness, though he gave no indication that those problems were directly tied to his decision to stop working.