Attending the historic three-day series of sales of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé was always going to be an extraordinary experience. And it was. Imagine queues lasting five hours for the public preview, which saw over 30,000 people waiting to get in. In the rain. Imagine holding a huge sale with an audience of 1500 under …
The lure of provenance
The much celebrated collection of Yves-Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé to be sold this month in Paris is almost as notable for its roster of previous owners as for the objects themselves