The King of Fashion, Yves Saint Laurent was born in 1936 in Oran, Algeria. Saint Laurent went to work for Christian Dior in 1954 after winning the first prize in International Wool Secretariat contest for his asymmetrical cocktail dress.
Yves Saint Laurent
He became Haute Couture designer after the death of Dior in 1960 and introduced trapeze dress in his first collection for Dior in 1958.