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...bicycle, César's 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...
...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...
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...
...Slimane couldn't be more dissimilar to Galliano, the buoyant, effusive man who has spent the last four years tearing down the image of Dior and rebuilding to fit a vision uniquely his own. Slimane achieved fame in fashion circles in 1996 with his sleek, sexy designs for the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche men's label. His clothes are unique in men's wear-slim leather coats, narrow suits and sheer shirts-subtle and elegant pieces that focus more on the cut than on styling flourishes. Critics labeled him either modern or feminine-the latter characterization supported...