Yves Saint Laurent shoes was founded by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Berge, in 1962. During the 1960s and 1970s, the firm popularized fashion trends such as the beatnik
After the death of Christian Dior, when [Yves] became the head of the house, looking like a boy of 16 years old, he was there with all the directors and I said, ‘You look like Mussolini in Italy on his balcony, greeting the crowds in the street.’