When Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge stepped off a plane in Marrakesh for the first time in 1966, ... the patterns, and the textiles that so inspired Saint Laurent.

FRANCE - CIRCA 1961: Zizi Jeanmaire and Yves Saint Laurent. Paris, Alhambra. December, 1961. LIP-005010-029. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) ...

The tale of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge is a tumultuous, passionate, complex, decadent, drug-laced love story. They separated as lovers in 1976, but they remained friends and business ...

At the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival, hundreds of images explore the life and work of Yves Saint Laurent.

IF YOU GO: "Yves Saint Laurent'' runs through April 5, 2009, at the de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., San Francisco, CA 94118. 415-750-3600.

The star's dress from the classic film is one of 46 Yves Saint Laurent looks on display in a new show at Orange County Museum of Art that spotlights the famed designer. By Jordan Riefe.

Yves Saint Laurent gave them power," said Phillips. 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 ...

Le Smoking, 1966 Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent. A dazzling designer, certainly, but hardly a democratizer. He may have wanted to épater le bourgeois, but he inevitably ended up ...

De La Falaise (left), pictured with Yves Saint Laurent and his other longtime muse, Betty Catroux (right). Guy Marineau De La Falaise pictured in 2010, the year before her death.