1974: The fashion house moves to 5 Avenue Marceau
1977: Chinese Girls collection
1982: Receives the International Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America
1983: Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Creation opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, curated by Diana Vreeland
1985: Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in Beijing
1988: Creates embroidered jackets based on Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Irises
1993: With Berge, sells the Yves Saint Laurent Group to Elf Sanofi, but the couple retain ownership of the couture house
1998: Stops designing ready-to-wear collections for Rive Gauche; Alber Elbaz named artistic director of ready-to-wear for women and Hedi Slimane for men
1999: Elf Sanofi sells the Yves Saint Laurent Group to the Pinault-Printemps-Redoute Group, but is still managed by Berge and Saint Laurent; Tom Ford replaces Elbaz and Slimane as artistic director of ready-to-wear
2002: Bids farewell to couture; the fashion house closes; the Fondation Pierre Berge - Yves Saint Laurent is recognized as a nonprofit organization
2008: Dies in his Paris home at the age of 71
