The city of Oran has revived the great family house of the famous French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, considered one of the most famous fashion designers of the 21st century, with more than 300,000 emblematic creations.
According to Sky News Arabia, Algerian entrepreneur Mohamed Afane has decided to buy the family home where Yves Saint Laurent grew up and restore it.
Yves Saint Laurent’s house will be transformed into a private museum that will tell the story of the first steps of the famous couturier, whose works have inspired many fashion designers around the world.
Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent, born August 1, 1936, in Oran and died June 1, 2008 in Paris, France, is a great French couturier, one of the most famous in the world whose haute couture collections are part of the history of the 20th century.
Only the tiled floor remains today in this childhood home in Oran
Yves Saint Laurent described Oran saying: “Oran, not Paris, was our world at the time. Algiers, the metaphysical city of Camus with its raw facts, or Marrakesh, with its useful pink magic, was not a global place with merchants everywhere, it was a city that shimmered with a multicolored mixture under the calm sun of ‘North Africa.”
Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent was born in Oran where he spent his youth, before arriving in Paris to work at Dior. He is a gifted draftsman and creator; his influence grew in this house until he replaced Christian Dior on the couturier’s sudden death.
