Editing Yves Saint Laurent (designer) (section)

=== Conscription and illness ===
In 1960, Saint Laurent was conscripted to serve in the [[French Army]] during the [[Algerian War]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 August 2018|title=5 Must-Know Tales About The Late Yves Saint Laurent|url=https://en.vogue.me/fashion/5-things-to-know-about-yves-saint-laurent/|access-date=11 June 2021|website=Vogue Arabia|language=en-GB}}</ref> Neri Karra writes that there was speculation at the time that [[Marcel Boussac]], the owner of the House of Dior and a powerful press baron, had put pressure on the government not to conscript Saint Laurent in 1958 and 1959, but after the disastrous Fall 1958 season, reversed course and asked that the designer be conscripted so that he could be replaced.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Karra |first1=Neri |title=Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion Business |date=28 November 2021 |publisher=Routledge |page=162 |isbn=978-1-315-45875-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeRFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT162 |language=en}}</ref>[[File:Mondriaanmode door Yves St Laurent (1966).jpg|thumb|upright|1965 Mondrian dresses]]
[[File:Yves Saint Laurent vintage knit dress deYoung Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|1965 knitted wedding dress]]
[[File:Saint Laurent Rive Gauche "Safari" jacket.jpg|thumb|upright|1968 "Safari" jacket for the Rive Gauche boutique]]
[[File:Yves St Laurent le smoking at deYoung Museum San Francisco.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Le Smoking]] evening trouser-suits]]
[[File:1988 Yves Saint Laurent Jacket, "Homage to Vincent van Gogh" (Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris).jpg|thumb|upright|1988 "Homage to Vincent Van Gogh" jacket, embroidered by [[François Lesage|Lesage]]]]
[[File:Le studio d'Yves Saint Laurent (Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris) - 31940295547.jpg|thumb|upright|Saint Laurent's studio, with a [[toile]] for a Safari jacket]]
Saint Laurent was in the military for 20&nbsp;days before the stress of [[hazing]] by fellow soldiers led to him being admitted to a military hospital, where he received news that he had been fired from Dior, to be replaced by [[Marc Bohan]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Marc Bohan Appointed Dior's New Designer |journal=The New York Times |date=1960-09-29 |page=38 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/29/archives/marc-bohan-appointed-diors-new-designer.html |access-date=2023-07-18 |quote=The fashion house of Christian Dior...has bestowed the ultimate glory on...Marc Bohan. It has been announced that Bohan will replace...Yves Saint Laurent as chief designer.}}</ref> This exacerbated his condition, and he was transferred to [[Val-de-Grâce]] [[military hospital]], where he was given large doses of sedatives and psychoactive drugs and subjected to [[electroshock therapy]].<ref>[http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/931:1087/1/Yves_Saint_Laurent.htm The Biography Channel – Yves Saint Laurent Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806090342/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/931:1087/1/Yves_Saint_Laurent.htm |date=6 August 2009 }}</ref> Saint Laurent himself traced the origin of both his mental problems and his drug addictions to this time in hospital.<ref name="alice" />