Paloma Picasso & Yves Saint Laurent: The 1971 Scandal Collection

Today we will talk about Paloma Picasso, the Yves Saint Laurent Scandal collection that turned the fashion world upside down in 1971, and look for references to the past in the current Spring/Summer 2022 collection. Yves Saint Laurent , also Saint Laurent is a Parisian haute couture house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé in 1961. Since 1999 the house belongs to Gucci group, which in turn is owned by Kering Holding. The current designer of the collections is Anthony Vaccarelo. The Collection itself is dedicated to Paloma Picasso, Saint Laurent's friend whose way of dressing inspired the designer for decades. Paloma Picasso had no way to avoid excessive attention, as she was the daughter of one of the most famous artists of the 20th century-Pablo Picasso! Paloma Sphinx-so nicknamed by her mother-became a coolly confident IT girl who kept herself at the center of the French art, theater and fashion world. "Her dresses were copied, her choices repeated, her looks imitated." She began her career in Paris, designing jewelry for small theater productions. Yves Saint Laurent quickly took notice of her work and commissioned her to design accessories for his collections in the early '70s. Then she went on to design jewelry for the Greek jewelry house Zolates and then moved to Tiffany's, where her pieces are still produced today. Among her close friends was not only Yves Saint Laurent but also Karl Lagerfeld. The fact that she was able to bridge the gap betwe