Pierre Niney

With the success of both Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Tatou’s biopics on the life of Coco Chanel, it wouldn’t be long until films about other famous fashion designers began coming out. This year, not one, but two movies about the life of Yves Saint-Laurent have been released. The first, Yves Saint Laurent, starring Pierre Niney as a young Saint Laurent follows the designer’s rapid ascension to the height of the haute couture scene.

Pierre Niney plays a young Yves Saint Laurent in Yves Saint Laurent

Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent’s long time lover and business partner, was supportive of the film, lending out “77 vintage outfits from its archives and [allowing the director] Lespert to film certain scenes at its headquarters on Avenue Marceau in Paris.” The film was largely adapted from Laurence Benaim’s biography of the couple’s reminiscences, in a book titled, “Letters to Yves.” Although Berge said “there are details I don’t like,” on the whole he approved of the movie and added, “You have to take the movie as it is - as a whole.”

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The main global cinematic event this week is the Berlin Film Festival, which showcases high-profile films like Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac and George Clooney's The Monuments Men. After their starry New York premiere last week, Clooney and his gang of costars - including Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman and Jean Dujardin - have been dashing around Europe this week. Here's video footage from The Monuments Men Premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York including the arrival of Director and Star George Clooney as well as appearences from other A-List cast members like Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon and Bill Murray. Incase you missed Shia LabBeouf's Paper bag stunt take a look here.

Another Berlin premiere debuted its first trailer this week, giving us a look at the biopic Yves Saint Laurent. Pierre Niney (Romantics Anonymous) plays the eponymous designer in the film, which traces his rise to fame and romantic liaisons with both men and women in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Unsurprisingly, the film looks stylish and achingly cool. It opens next month in Britain. Watch 'Yves Saint Laurent' trailer here.

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The life of YVES SAINT LAURENT is likely to make for a far more engrossing movie than Coco Before Chaneland it's Jalil Lespert who's been trusted with bringing his complex story to the big-screen. His new movie focuses on the complex life of one of the world's most famous fashion designers.

Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent [L] and Charlotte Le Bon [R] 

We join the action as Yves - a 21-year-old aspiring designer - catches the eye of major house Christian Dior. The ambitious creative suddenly finds himself working for Dior and he is catapulted into the celebrity world. 

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