In Bertrand Bonello's 2014 film Saint Laurent, the couturier's dog, French bulldog Moujik, dies of an overdose after ingesting his master's drugs. The anecdote is apocryphal, but it speaks to Moujik's importance in the legend surrounding Yves Saint Laurent.

In Yves Saint Laurent and his dogs, published by Norma, Martin Bethenod, independent curator and former deputy director of the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, describes the fashion genius, who died in 2008 aged 71, and his passion for dogs. The book is the second in the Amigos Forever series, offering a look at the lives of great artists from the perspective of their relationship with dogs.

In addition to the famous Moujik, and his three successors bearing his name, there were other dogs. Particularly the Hazel chihuahuas, "the great forgotten ones," writes Bethenod, who adds that they "gave rise to brilliant iconography." The richly illustrated book shows the tiny dogs in the arms of friends (François-Marie Banier, Talitha Getty), photographed by Martine Franck and Alice Springs.

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