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Tout le monde was talking about it. Well, tout le fashion monde anyway. Yves Saint Laurent was in the front row of the Christian Dior men's show last month, sandwiched between his business partner Pierre Berg* and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. It may not seem like a big deal-Saint Laurent used to be the designer for Christian Dior, and the designer having the show, Hedi Slimane, once worked for the Yves Saint Laurent label. But Saint Laurent never showed up at one of Slimane's shows before. In fact, Saint Laurent has reportedly attended only one other fashion...
...certainly a great moment for Arnault, who also controls Christian Dior. Neither Berg* nor Saint Laurent were at the YSL men's show the day before. (Remember, Arnault's archrival Gucci Group bought YSL for $1 billion late last year.) The debut men's collection by Tom Ford was a homage to Saint Laurent the man-a parade of lookalike models in the designer's signature glasses. That Berg* and Saint Laurent chose to attend the Dior show instead of the one for the brand they created could only be seen as a slap in the face...
...Arnault's appointment of Galliano-the first of the so-called bad-boy British designers to invade Paris-to the House of Givenchy outraged many of couture's stalwarts. These included, ironically, Berg*, who saw the early collections as a death knell for haute couture. Others saw him as its savior-the man who could bring excitement, and maybe even paying customers, back to the parlors of the couture houses. Excitement? Headlines? Galliano got both in droves. After a year, Arnault promoted him to Dior and moved another British bad-boy, Alexander McQueen, to Givenchy, arguing that good press...
Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University and former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard...
...have a 45-minute class, at least 14 minutes is transit time, so you have a lot less learning time," Berg says...