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Today the look, famously captured on film in 1968 for Vogue magazine with the cult model Veruschka posing, above, in the middle of the African savanna, is back in fashion, thanks in part to newly appointed Yves Saint Laurent creative director Stefano Pilati...
With his first collection for the fabled French couture house, Pilati did an about-face from his former boss Tom Ford and scrounged through Saint Laurent's archives, bringing back all the iconic pieces that Saint Laurent himself made famous, including the safari shirt, now in supple ultrasuede. Pilati even created a "must-have" handbag and named it after the model from 1968: the Veruschka...
...wanted to get the feeling of Saint Laurent back into fashion--French, elegant, classy," Pilati has said. He's not alone...
...creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Although Gucci parent PPR's announcement is not expected until this week, sources close to the Gucci group said a new in-house team of designers would be promoted: Alessandra Facchinetti, Alfreda Giannini and John Ray at Gucci, and Stefano Pilati at YSL. All four are Ford-trained, but none yet possess the star power many consider essential to the success of luxury labels. "We are going to be watching with great anticipation whether this new concept for Gucci will be valid," said Burt Tansky, chief executive of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus...
...over the radio is identified as that of Dave O'Brien, a recently hired columnist for the Boston Herald American. He is doing a radio commercial for the Herald about the reasons that led him away from the weekly Boston Phoenix to the daily, slowly transforming Herald. As Joe Pilati, O'Brien's replacement as the Phoenix's media columnist, wrote in a column this summer, it took guts for the Herald to allow that choice quote to go out over the airwaves. But like it or not, O'Brien's new bosses had to admit that it was true...