He went on to win an international design competition at the age of 18 and was handpicked by Christian Dior to join his fashion house, where he was forced to take the creative reins of one of the industry’s biggest dynasties upon Dior’s untimely death. An outcast as a result of his sexual identity, Laurent retreated into the land of his mother’s magazines, recreating the beauty he saw there. Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, eventual icon Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (Pierre Niney) faced bullying and harassment at the hands of his classmates. This French biographical drama chronicles the creative rise and personal failings of fashion maven Yves Saint Laurent.
