Question: having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent this American fashion designer directed a film based on what novel?

Context articles: Anthony Vaccarello
Yves Saint Laurent (film)
Tom Ford
Roger Scemama
Saint Laurent (film)
Nocturnal Animals
Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
Patrick Kelly (fashion designer)
Yves Saint Laurent (designer)
Hedi Slimane

Anthony Vaccarello is an Italian-Belgian fashion designer and currently creative director at Yves Saint Laurent.
 Prior to this he held the position of creative director at Versus Versace, as well as designing his own eponymous line.
Yves Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biographical drama film directed by Jalil Lespert and co-written with Jacques Fieschi, Jérémie Guez and Marie-Pierre Huster.
 The film is based on the life of Yves Saint Laurent from 1958.
 The film stars Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Xavier Lafitte and Nikolai Kinski.
 The film opened the Panorama Special section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the renovated Zoo Palast, with director, cast and Pierre Bergé in attendance.
 The film received seven nominations at the 40th César Awards, winning Best Actor for Pierre Niney.
Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer, film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
 He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2006, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent.
 Ford directed the Oscar-nominated films "A Single Man" (2009) and "Nocturnal Animals" (2016).
Roger Scemama (1898 – 1989) was a French parurier.
 Born in Tunis to a wealthy Florentine family, Scemama moved to Paris in 1922 where he began parure-making.
 Roger Scemama worked for the most famous French Haute Couture houses and resurrected the use of crystal in fashion in the 1950s.
 Alongside the Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn, Scemama was asked to design her necklace.
 As a parurier, Roger Scemama designed jewelleries for Jacques Fath, Balmain, Schiaparelli, Lanvin, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Dior and Yves Saint Laurent.
 Some of its jewelry creations for Yves Saint Laurent can be found in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others at the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.
Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biography drama film co-written and directed by Bertrand Bonello, and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint Laurent, Jérémie Renier as Pierre Bergé, and Louis Garrel as Jacques de Bascher.
 The supporting cast features Léa Seydoux, Amira Casar, Aymeline Valade and Helmut Berger.
 The film centers on Saint Laurent's life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.
 The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was released on 24 September 2014.
Nocturnal Animals is a 2016 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Tom Ford, based on the 1993 novel "Tony and Susan" by Austin Wright.
 The film stars Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, Karl Glusman, and Michael Sheen.
 Principal photography began on October 5, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.
 The film was released in the United States on November 18, 2016, by Focus Features, received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $30 million worldwide.
Yves Saint Laurent YSL (] ; also known as Saint Laurent Paris) is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé.
 Saint Laurent Paris revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under creative director Hedi Slimane.
 The new collection, "Yves Saint Laurent Couture" or "Saint Laurent Paris 24, Rue de L’Université" is the French house's first couture collection ever since the retirement of its legendary founder in 2002.
Patrick Kelly (September 24, 1954 – January 1, 1990) was an American fashion designer.
 Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Kelly studied art at Jackson State University and then attended Parsons School of Design.
 While in New York Kelly Struggled to find steady employment.
 To support himself he had many jobs that included a part time job at Baskin Robbins while continuing to sell his own designs.
 After receiving advice from his friend and super model Pat Cleveland and an anonymous one-way ticket he moved to Paris in 1979.
 Once there Kelly was promptly hired as a costume designer for a nightclub called Le Palace.
 In a small apartment which he shared with a model he continued to sell his own creations and even homemade chicken dinners to make ends meet.
 While living in Atlanta at age 18 Kelly sold reworked, recycled clothes and served as an unpaid window-dresser at Yves Saint Laurent.
 YSL chairman Pierre Bergé personally sponsored Kelly in 1988 to form the Paris-based womenswear fashion house Patrick Kelly Paris.
 Kelly achieved his greatest commercial success in the late 1980s and in 1988 Kelly became both the first American and the first person of color to be admitted as a member of the Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode.
 Kelly died at age 35 on New Year's Day, 1990.
 Originally Kelly's causes of death were reported to be bone marrow disease and a brain tumor, but the actual cause of death is now acknowledged to be complications of AIDS.
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (] ; 1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), professionally Yves Saint-Laurent was a French fashion designer, and businessman 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 rise from its 1960s ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable."
 He was able to adapt his style to accommodate the changes in fashion during that period.
 He approached fashion in a different perspective by wanting women to look comfortable yet elegant at the same time.
 He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women and was known for his use of non-European cultural references, and non-white models.
Hedi Slimane (] ; born July 5, 1968) is a French photographer and fashion designer.
 From 2000 to 2007, he held the position of creative director for Dior Homme (the menswear line of Christian Dior).
 From 2012 to 2016, he was the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent.
 He left the brand on March 31, 2016.