I’m so excited to find out that a trip to Paris I am taking for work coincides with the YSL retrospective at the Le Petit Palais!

The exhibition will cover Yves Saint Laurent’s entire career: from his beginnings at Dior’s atelier (just around the corner from the museum) to his Le Smoking, his designs for many theatrical productions and of course for his great muse Catherine Deneuve.

I think I better book my ticket now.

The extensive art collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé will be auctioned at Christies in Paris, in five sales, on 24, 25 and 26 February 2009. For those on a budget, the catalogues are a snip at £160…