Sally is probably rolling her eyes as she reads this, but people like me and Anthony Easton care about this shit.
I used to sew clothes with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, because that made me just like Yves Saint Laurent., and it also meant I burned holes in things before they were ever worn.
6) how he made peasent chic so v. expensive, so out of the price range of most peasents, i like the irony there, esp that he did it only a few years after 68, and how his reaction to 68 was so formal, so aesthetic, and so against the ossfying sentiment http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1984.598.96a-c.jpg
7) his bitchy fuck you reactions to tom ford's crude american tendencies (even though the sophie dahl ad for opium would have been something that YSL would have tried, if he had someone like Dahl in the mid 70s)
8) the logo, how it stacked almost vertically, but also basically on a bias, and how that combo managed to suggest both power and a speed of motion, w/o being trendy
9) his women in impossibly chic pants and jackets, it was done before, by detrich, and garbo, and weimar, but how well he did it
10) Alicia Drake's Book The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris. Little, Brown and Company, 2006.
Yves Saint Laurent dead at 71.
(via schwarz)
Sally is probably rolling her eyes as she reads this, but people like me and Anthony Easton care about this shit.
I used to sew clothes with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, because that made me just like Yves Saint Laurent., and it also meant I burned holes in things before they were ever worn.
- L.M. 6-02-2008 2:38 am
- L.M. 6-02-2008 2:40 am
I care. YSL was beyond tres elegant.
- KW (guest) 6-02-2008 4:39 am
Eye Rolling Out Loud
- sally mckay 6-02-2008 5:17 am
top ten things about YSL
1) the trapeze collection that he did just after dior died,that combined the tailoring of dior with the shape expriements of balencigahttp://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6701/lelphantblanctj1.png
2) the mondrian dresses http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_C.I.69.23.jpg :
3) catherine denuve's costumes for belle de jour http://www.imdb.com/media/rm843290624/tt0061395
4) although algerian, how he became synamous with a decadent french glamour
5) that avedon shot of him nude http://www.timelinefashion.de/bilder/laurent-1.gif
6) how he made peasent chic so v. expensive, so out of the price range of most peasents, i like the irony there, esp that he did it only a few years after 68, and how his reaction to 68 was so formal, so aesthetic, and so against the ossfying sentiment http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1984.598.96a-c.jpg
7) his bitchy fuck you reactions to tom ford's crude american tendencies (even though the sophie dahl ad for opium would have been something that YSL would have tried, if he had someone like Dahl in the mid 70s)
8) the logo, how it stacked almost vertically, but also basically on a bias, and how that combo managed to suggest both power and a speed of motion, w/o being trendy
9) his women in impossibly chic pants and jackets, it was done before, by detrich, and garbo, and weimar, but how well he did it
10) Alicia Drake's Book The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris. Little, Brown and Company, 2006.
- anonymous (guest) 6-02-2008 8:58 am
me
- anthony (guest) 6-02-2008 9:03 am
1962
- bill 6-02-2008 12:41 pm
great photo! RIP, YSL!
- nanmac (guest) 6-02-2008 1:15 pm
Bill's link above is to a youtube treasure so here it is:
- L.M. 6-02-2008 4:40 pm