Are you familiar with any French fashion houses, like Yves Saint Laurent?
No not at all. Only American really; could you tell me about it?
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (; 1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, "The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's
Inland Empire".
Background.
David Lynch's previous work with fashion companies includes advert collaborations with Gucci, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. According to Lynch, he was contacted by Dior with some basic guidelines: 
They called me up and said, 'Would you like to make a short film for the internet? You can do anything you want, you just need to show the handbag, the Pearl Tower and some old Shanghai.' ... This falls between a regular film and a commercial. I