After 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 Maison Yves Saint Laurent. His appointment should be(...) Read More about Breaking ‘Fashion’ News: Slimane at YSL (14 words)

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Every 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 designer’s collections stand out is how each pulls, crops and tweaks it to express a very different aesthetic, within the variables of “Classic Remixed”.(...) Read More about Paris Fashion Week F/W 2010 Runway Review (144 words)

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Every 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. For the look book they used Mina Cvetkovic, a model we are starting to see more and more frequently.

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I 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. No matter what else is released this year nothing will come close to this graphic sculptural peep toe boot, made of leather and wire. It is just pure untouchable genius! It is no wonder they have the whole SS09 YSL campaign was based on it, and the photos of Schiffer shot by Inez & Vinoodh are nothing short of amazing. They captured that Hollywood Glamour with the abstracted letters of the Hollywood sign just behind Schiffer.

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For the Spring/Summer 09 Mens Collection YSL has created a video of Stefano Pilati’s cerebral deconstruction of hetero normative 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.

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(...) Read More about ‘Transition’, A Yves Saint Laurent edition special on Dazed & Confused Photographed By Tim Richardson (24 words)

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