Lauren Cochrane 

The ‘unofficial’ YSL biopic – watch the new trailer

The trailer for the second, 'unofficial' Yves Saint Laurent biopic has been released. Lauren Cochrane on five things we've learned from it
  
  


YSL biopic

The trailer for the second Yves Saint Laurent biopic – simply titled Saint Laurent – has been released. Unlike the first film, this one's unofficial and, even though it's in French and our language skills are limited, it seems decidedly more dramatic than the first. Here is what we learned when we watched it.

Alicia Drake’s The Beautiful Fall was a set text

The 2006 book was a romp through 1970s fashion in Paris, telling all on Saint Laurent, friend and rival Karl Lagerfeld and other friends. Anyone who has read it (and no doubt everyone on set did) will recognise a cast of characters including Jacques de Bascher (lover of Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld), Betty Catroux and Loulou de la Falaise.

There’s a fashion-friendy cast

Saint Laurent is played by Gaspard Ulliel, who starred in a Chanel ad in 2010, while Prada campaign girl Léa Seydoux is De la Falaise and model Aymeline Valade is Catroux. How appropriate.

You don’t need access to archives for fabulous clothes

Saint Laurent’s partner, Pierre Bergé, sanctioned use of clothes from the archives for March’s official biopic. This one still manages to reference the Russian collection, "le smoking" and the controversial 40s collection. And that’s just in the trailer.

Going out in 70s Paris looks like the most fun ever

If the official biopic focused on Saint Laurent’s work, there’s a bit more of the play here, judging by the trailer. It’s only right. Going on Drake, the designer’s extra-curricular activities – out all night at Le Sept, long languid holidays in Morocco, that affair with de Bascher – were high drama just asking for celluloid.

Snakes are a thing

They appear slithering across notebooks and on Ulliel’s lap at one point. We have no idea what this means, but it looks pretty great.

 

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