"Yves St.Laurent Fashion Review" is one of Toim Tierney's better works in the fashion designers series of paper doll books.
It's wonderful that one of the dolls looks like Yves Saint-Laurent's close friend and muse, Catherine Deneuve (although this isn't mentioned in the text).
All of the famous creations from YSL's first twenty years as a couturier are featured: trapeze line dress, the smoking, safari jacket, art inspired dresses and ethnic looks.
Unfortunately, the later stages of YSL's career are not well represented. Many fashion historians give the impression that YSL influence faded by the end of the 1970-s, but he was in fact instrumental in creating the look of the 1980-s. Tom Tierney's book reinforces this erroneous impression by featuring very few designs dated after 1979.
One final note: doll two is clothed in a flesh colored body stocking which was supposedly worn under transparent clothes. Yves Saint-Laurent never gave his models body stockings to wear under mousseline dresses as such false modesty would defeat the purpose of celebrating a beautiful body.