We've often argued that fashion is always a political statement, even if you don't want it to be:
And maybe Stefano Pilati agrees.
The head designer of Yves Saint Laurent has sent out another Manifesto - this time a series of Kate Moss photographs - and decked Houston Street in New York City with giant Kate Moss panels backed with mirrors and glass.
The effect is a little too small for the massive Manhattan energy - and further dwarfed by a Kate Bosworth for Calvin Klein billboard hanging above the YSL space - but it's still pretty cool, if you like Kate and luxury brands and weird branding and all that.
If you're insulted that a company demanding $300 for a t-shirt and $1000 for a dress would deign to use the word "manifesto" as anything but a prediction of their own proletariat demise...
Well, we can't help you there. Kate looks cute though.
(Think they'll sell that jacket in YSL stores?)
posted by guest
Feb 29, 2008 12:38PM
They were handing them out on Brick Lane in London a week ago. There was also a "peusdo-gallery" with huge pictures of Kate Moss (which were basically the same pictures used in the manifesto; blown up to ten times the original size) in which people were wandering around, looking quite lost....