Countless designers have costumed stars for the big screen, but few were as prolific as the formidable Yves Saint Laurent.
The designer outfitted the screen legend once again for Alain Cavalier’s sweeping tale of a flighty mistress who’s torn between her influential patron and a young idealist. Galavanting around Paris while dressed in buttery trench coats, roll necks and plaid skirts, her hair tied back with a black ribbon, Deneuve’s Lucile combines glamour and poise with a hint of girlish frivolity.
Taken from Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche spring/summer 1968 collection, Deneuve’s refined yet dramatic ensembles for François Truffaut’s beguiling crime saga establish her as a quietly powerful femme fatale. They run the gamut from ruffled florals with a sculptural hat to a sequined bodysuit cut to the navel, as she goes on the run – a mail-order bride who steals millions from her new husband , disappears, and then later resurfaces as a nightclub dancer in Antibes.