Yves Saint Laurent: The man who put women in trousers

Yves Saint Laurent was one of the first designers to have presented trousered designs for women.

While we don’t bat an eye when seeing women in pants, it wasn’t so in the past. In the 1960s for example, it was still considered ill-mannered for ladies to appear in public clad in trousers.

The man who changed it all? Legendary French couturier Yves Saint Laurent. He was the first designer to present the suit as a form of acceptable women’s evening wear in 1966.