Yves Saint Laurent–Coming to the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 6th and making its New York debut on July 9, 2014, biopic Yves Saint Laurent stars actor Pierre Niney as design legend Yves Saint Laurent. The film follows the life of Saint Laurent from his early years working at Dior in the late 1950s to the building of his Parisian fashion house with his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.