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...make him happier than to see Hubert de Givenchy at one of his shows and chances are this collection - packed full of references to the work of the old man - will appeal to whatever original Givenchy clients still remain. At the other end of the haute couture schedule was Yves Saint Laurent. Not the Yves Saint Laurent that held a bash for a new perfume, Nu, featuring nearly-naked dancers in a transparent tube. Not the YSL that clothed newly-single Nicole Kidman at Cannes and Claudia Schiffer at a Bulgari party in Rome. That was all the work...
...label had been almost comically cheesy, a synonym for tasteless excess. Now it's the definition of sizzle. There are people whose voices still grow hushed when they talk about the white dresses with strategically positioned cutouts from his Gucci Fall 1996 collection. And his two collections for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and one for YSL men's have been particularly cunning. Because Yves Saint Laurent himself still designs the couture line and because of the reverence in which fashion adherents hold the old master, Ford went gently at first, presenting an all-black-and-white collection...
Although Japanese designers like Miyake and Hanae Mori appeared on the international fashion scene in the 1970s, it was a decade later when Paris really took notice. The era was one of excess: Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler were focused on enhancing shoulders with exaggerated padding; Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent were creating rococo fantasies of beading, silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with...
DESIGN NEWS AND EVENTS Yves Saint Laurent's New Look if you want to know what a brand stands for, look at its stores. Or so goes the conventional thinking. Since the early 1990s, the shift, particularly in the U.S., from designers selling to retailers to stocking their own directly operated stores has changed the face of the shopping landscape. Some of the world's greatest architects are now designing stores. Rem Koolhaas, who won architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent last year, the Pritzker, is conceptualizing the New York Prada store, which sits beneath the Soho Guggenheim Museum. Christian...
...Chloe is believed to expire in June; Ghesquiere is bringing the legendary haute- couture house Balen- ciaga under the upstart Gucci Group umbrella. Not bad considering that just 18 months ago Gucci "Group" was composed of just Gucci. Since then, American Ford, 39, who designs the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent lines, and De Sole, 57, have given a makeover to the company's image, moving it from fusty, fashion conservative and financially precarious to sexy, of the moment--and profitable...