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...compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs...
Yves Saint Laurent Like many of the developing fashion stars of tomorrow, Yves Saint Laurent came to fame by designing for somebody else. He had been at Christian Dior for only two years when the legendary founder died of a heart attack. The reins were quickly passed to Saint Laurent, 21. His first collection for Dior stuck closely to the house's legacy - and was a smash success. "Saint Laurent has saved France!" read the papers the following day. But with his next collections he strayed further from the Dior traditions, to the consternation of many - especially the house...
...That's hard to do when you're designing 14 collections a year." In the plans is his own haute couture collection, to be shown in Paris; and a new store concept that will debut in Milan. Gucci has given him the space currently occupied by the Yves Saint Laurent store. "The company behind you should be solely interested in what you're doing," says McQueen. "Gucci Group is a fashion-based group. It's not investing in everything including the kitchen sink...
...Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...
...Slimane's collections for Dior, the first of which was seen in January, will likely continue to receive raves from the fashion press. But they're unlikely to shock the media as a whole into paying attention. The controversy created by the presence of Berg* and Saint Laurent was of a sort that is lost on anyone outside fashion's inner circle. Sure, Arnault scored points there, but the larger question remains whether Dior Homme's stark ads, minimal styles and boyish models make sense in the house of Dior that Galliano has been remodeling. Is it logical...