When she was barely 15 years old, Laetitia Casta suffered terrible criticism from Yves Saint Laurent’s team. Touched by these remarks, the model took years to agree to collaborate with the designer.
It took him strength of character to overcome the criticisms. In the early 1990s, Laetitia Casta saw her life change. Spotted on a Corsican beach when she was only a teenager, she was propelled into the world of modeling. And if she made a career there for many years, he did not open his arms to her directly … “In the world of fashion, I was not in the norms. Whereas I hadn’t asked for anything! I arrived with what I was and found it to be very good. And at that point, we had to defend something. It was not planned, but I defended it “, she remembered on the set of Day-to-day, this Monday January 10, evoking its forms which were not then the norm in the trade. When she was only 15 years old, Laetitia Casta had to swallow the terrible remarks of the Yves Saint Laurent team.
“They looked at me and they said, ‘But how are we going to dress this?’, said Laetitia Casta, still shocked by such a remark. I was there, in front of me. But they didn’t know I was French. I remember vividly, I was 15 and a half years old, and I said to them, ‘I will never go to this awful place again. I won’t go any more! ‘” But life wanted it otherwise. Years later, Laetitia Casta agreed to parade for the creator, but on her terms. “I went there, but I said to them: ‘Alright, but I won’t put on a white blouse, I don’t want a bun and I don’t want lipstick’, she told in Daily. As Mr. Saint Laurent wanted to see me, they replied: ‘Ah, very good, there is no problem’. I arrived, he was there in front of me, and there my heart started to beat very hard. And it was a great love story that started between us. “
Laeticia Casta: “I became a woman in Yves Saint Laurent”
At the time, Laetitia Casta discovered a man of “sickly shyness”, as she told Telerama : “We both had our heads down. Then he picked it up, looked at me and said: how beautiful you are! (…) Our collaboration began from this mutual love at first sight”. For years indeed, Laetitia Casta then became the muse of Yves Saint Laurent. In the columns of Paris Match a few years ago, the one he nicknamed his “Bird of Paradise”, confided in their special relationship. “He liked women as subjects, not coat rack models. I became a woman in Yves Saint Laurent”, described the mother of four children. And if she has changed by collaborating with the designer, Yves Saint Laurent has also made his work evolve by working with her. Together, they offered several parades and legendary outfits.
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Laetitia Casta
Spotted on a Corsican beach when she was only a teenager, she was propelled into the world of modeling
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Laetitia Casta
If she made a career there for many years, he did not open his arms to her directly.
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When she was only 15 years old, Laetitia Casta had to swallow the terrible remarks of the Yves Saint Laurent team
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The YSL team had a very hurtful remark
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She didn’t want to work with the designer for years
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She finally agreed to parade for him
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She fell in love with Yves Saint Laurent
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Over the years, she has become the muse of Yves Saint Laurent
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She explains that she “became a woman in Yves Saint Laurent”
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The model paraded for the older ones