· DESIGNERS ·
Breaking ‘Fashion’ News: Slimane at YSLAfter last weeks news about Raf Simons leaving Jil Sanders and her second homecoming, here is some more breaking fashion news to keep the conversations following through this last part of the fashion weeks. Hedi Slimane returns to the drawing boards. If rumors are true, Slimane will succeed the (very) talented Stefano Pilati at the [...]
· FEATURED, RUNWAY ·
Paris Fashion Week F/W 2010 Runway ReviewEvery season I try to redefine each fashion week by its strongest characteristics. The fashion weeks personalities rarely change but perhaps my perspective on them continues to evolve. Looking at Paris this season I would say that Paris’s personality is “Classic Remixed”. All silhouettes have a similar structural starting point but what makes the featured [...]
· DESIGNERS, FASHION ·
YSL Womens Resort 09/2010 Look BookEvery one of these look is worth a million words. Stefano Pilati knows more about how to make a woman feel superior than most. Bold and elegant, the YSL Womens Resort 09/2010 Collection is beautifully represented through this simple and remarkably styled look book.
· EDITORIAL ·
'Transition' Dazed & Confused By Tim RichardsonKasia Struss was photographed by Tim Richardson for Dazed & Confused Magazine (stylist: Karen Langley ) on March 7, 2008 at Pier 59 Studios. The editorial is a Yves Saint Laurent special, celebrating Stefano Pilati’s contribution to the house of Saint Laurent. A video of the shoot can be seen here.
· DESIGNERS, FASHION, TRENDS ·
The Best Shoes of 2009 – YSLI had trouble to give a title to this article. I mean it could have been multiple suiting things like, “Claudia Schiffer for YSL”, or “My Heart Stops, When Stefano Pilati Starts” or “The Hollywood Sign Abstracted”, but I couldn’t make anything more important that this shoe. It is no wonder they have the whole SS09 YSL campaign was based on it, and the photos of Schiffer shot by…
· DESIGNERS, FASHION, FEATURED ·
YSL Mens SS09 CollectionWe ended the week with Stefano Pilati’s experimental video for the YSL SS09 collection for men. And I’d like to start the week with with a close up preview on the specific looks and styling of the same collection. This collection can be described as urban literati meets royal grunge.
· FASHION, VIDEO ·
YSL Virtual Fashion ArtFor the Spring/Summer 09 Mens Collection YSL has created a video of Stefano Pilati’s cerebral deconstruction of heteronormative gender assumptions. This performance art meets fashion video is a brilliant virtual tour of the mastermind of Yves Saint Laurent’s Stefano Pilati, and the darkness that surrounds the loss of one of fashions greatest contributors.
· EDITORIAL ·
‘Transition’, A Yves Saint Laurent edition special on Dazed & Confused Photographed By Tim RichardsonKasia Struss was photographed by Tim Richardson for Dazed & Confused Magazine (stylist: Karen Langley ) on March 7, 2008 at Pier 59 Studios. The editorial is a