Like the similarly structured “Coco Before Chanel” (2009), this dramatized biopic of revered designer Yves Saint Laurent never quite gets at the heart of its subject’s great gifts. But director Jalil ...

There's a remote feeling to Jalil Lespert's bio-pic of Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who died in 2008, that suits the world the man apparently lived in -- the louche luxury of what ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Early in “Yves Saint Laurent,” the young fashion designer is called upon by his couturier boss, Christian Dior, to demonstrate how he’s going to emphasize ...

Jalil Lespert’s “Yves Saint Laurent,” the first of two YSL biopics scheduled for release this year, made its Gotham premiere on Monday. The Weinstein Co. pic, about one of haute couture’s great ...

Yves Saint Laurent used to say that he was the last of the great couturiers. He is also the only one who has been the subject of two biopics in less than six months. While Jalil Lespert's insipid Yves ...

The first of this year's two biopics of the celebrated fashion designer is considerably less innovative than its human subject. Five years ago, Coco Chanel was also the subject of dueling biopics, ...

Yves Saint Laurent, the great French fashion designer, was by any definition an early bloomer. He was hired as an assistant at the legendary House of Dior while still in his teens, and at 21 became ...

One thing is certain from Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent—the latest and by far the better of the two fictional films about the French couturier to open in theaters in the space of 11 months—is that ...