He told the Wall Street Journal of Hedi Slimane’s latest collection (which has garnered comparisons to thrift stores and cheap high street shops), “I adored it; it’s exactly what needed to be done.”
Almost 300 original sketches from Yves Saint Laurent’s personal collection are missing. The saga spans four decades, stretches between two continents and implicates some pretty important fashion people–but the timing of this mystery prompted some to wonder whether it was YSl’s attempt to wag the dog after that whole Cathy Horyn/Hedi Slimane feud. {TheCut}
It’s been a wait of almost ten years, but Zara Home has finally made its way across the pond. The online shopping site launched in the US today. {SHEFinds}
Plus-size model Robyn Lawley’s swimwear shoot for Cosmopolitan Australia will transport you to warm places on this wet and windy fall day. {Huffington Post}
Hedi Slimane finally made his debut for Saint Laurent. Here’s our firsthand account.
When we heard a rumor that newly hired Yves Saint Laurent creative director Hedi Slimane was planning to change the name of the iconic house, one of the first things we wondered was–what will Pierre Bergé think? The rumor turned out to be true–the new name will be Saint Laurent Paris–and as it turns out, he’s totally cool with it.
Friday night, the Denver Art Museum held a black tie opening gala for their major fashion exhibition coup, Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective. I heard more than one Denverian (?) refer to this as Denver’s biggest event since the Democratic National Convention. Indeed, hundreds of Denver’s elite showed up as well as the mayor, a few French ambassadors, and several chic French people and members of the Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, including its founder, co-founder of the Yves Saint Laurent house and Saint Laurent’s longtime partner, Pierre Bergé.
It was clear that all of them were genuinely happy to be there and could not have been more pleased with the exhibit and its surprising new home. Berge, who, from a distance and by some accounts, seems like he could be a difficult man to please, said in a brief speech at the event, “Yves Saint Laurent would be very proud to be here.”
Later that evening, we tracked him down inside the exhibit (the museum set aside a private seating area for him which he never used), where he told us he didn’t have a favorite part of the exhibit. “I like everything,” he said. “Of course for me what is important is the tuxedo [wall] because it is the first one and also the Mondrian dress because it is an iconic dress.” He had equally nice and enthusiastic things to say about Yves Saint Laurent’s brand new creative director, Hedi Slimane:
The Denver Art Museum is hosting a new fashion exhibit called “Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective.” While we mentioned this exhibition in our 2012 museum roundup, we just got some more details about this particular show.
The exhibition will be hosted at the museum from March 25 – July 8. The Denver Art Museum is the only venue in the US at which this show will be held, and it sounds pretty spectacular. As the name suggests, it’s a retrospective of YSL’s career from his early days at Dior in the 1950s up through his last show in 2002. The show was curated by Florence Müller and overseen by Pierre Bergé, who was YSL’s one-time romantic partner and life-long business partner.
Now here’s where it gets a littler strange.
Thanks to a grand endorsement from Carine Roifeld, Hakaan Yildirim was already a name to know when he received France’s prestigious ANDAM award in 2010. “We’re in Harvey Nichols, Colette, Opening Ceremony–it’s nearly 26 stockists internationally!” he told Fashionista at the awards ceremony in Paris last October.
Now it’s time for another up-and-comer to take advantage of the prize, i.e. €220,000, a mentorship with former Chloe chief exec Ralph Toledano, and the chance to show at Paris Fashion Week. This year’s nominees include Jeremy Laing, Adam Kimmel, Anthony Vaccarello, Commuun, Matthew Harding, and Yiqing Yin. The judges? Pierre Berge, Hillary Alexander, Emmanuelle Alt, Nicole Phelps, Sarah Lerfel from Colette, and Humberto Leon from Opening Ceremony, to name a few.
Victoria’s Secret Angel Wing Maker Says Gisele is Difficult: Brooklyn costume designer Ted Southern says that Heidi Klum is the easiest model to work with while Gisele is “always screaming, ‘What the f–k is this?’” {New York Post}
Mugler’s Digital Future:New creative director Nicola Formichetti says that he was hired to bring Mugler into “the new decade.” During the live-stream of Formichetti’s first show for the brand, Mugler’s Facebook page got 3.2 million page views and was the number one trending topic on Twitter worldwide. {WWD, subscription required}
Astrologers Predict John Galliano’s Replacement at Dior:Style.com enlisted horoscope experts to examine the signs of those who have been rumored to be taking over the French house. The stars seem to be aligning for Haider Ackermann, who as an Aries, apparently has a “significant fate” awaiting him. {Style.com}
There was one last thing to do before I left Paris on Friday– see the YSL exhibit at the Petit Palais. It was the most massive, most satisfying exhibition of a designer’s work that I have ever seen. Aside from over four hundred looks, there’s Saint Laurent’s desk, his personal effects, his original sketches for Read more →
“French women dress like armchairs,” says Pierre Bergé, “Since people do what they want, there’s no need for new fashion dictators like we had before.” In Habillées, the new series from Sundance’s Full Frontal Fashion, Mademoiselle Agnès confronts Bergé about the lack of new talent in Paris and questions the decision to award the ANDAM Read more →
