Saint Laurent: A man who could not be defined
French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died Sunday at 71. Once viewed as a Boy Wonder, the man rose to become a fashion king, with his business eventually expanding to include the licensing production of even such items as handkerchiefs and socks. In fact, the Yves Saint Laurent brand has become so popular that most people likely have one or two gift items bearing the familiar YSL logo in their homes.
When Saint Laurent won the confidence of fashion leader Christian Dior, he was still a design student. After Dior's sudden death in 1957, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent became chief designer of the house of Dior and worked to redefine that brand.
Saint Laurent continually challenged conventions, starting in Paris, which is divided down the middle by the river Seine. On the river's right bank lies the commercial district and on the left, enclaves*孤立した地域 of students, artists and varied cultural groups. For years, France's haute couture*オート・クチュール fashion house were all concentrated on the right bank. Defying*無視する、受け入れない that convention, in 1966, Saint Laurent opened "Rive Gauche"(left bank), his ready-to-wear既製服の women's clothing boutique, on the other side of Seine.
On its opening day, his close friend, actress Catherine Deneuve, came by立ち寄る and bought one of his new designs: a pantsuit. The menswear-inspired style spawned*物を生む a fashion revolution, becoming the uniform of a new generation of women who wore it to show they had no intention of being second-class citizens to men, Alice Rawsthorn writes in her book "Yves Saint Laurent: A biography."
When the designer was 35, he posed nude in an YSL advertising campaign for a men's fragrance. A smile man, he wore only his trademark black-rimmed glasses in the photo. He later said he had intended to create a scandal. Some say Saint Laurent was a man who "defied summation要約 and analysis."
The fashion industry, controlled by ingenuity創意 and financial power, is constantly changing. The house of Dior, where Saint Laurent used to work, has now been absorbed into the giant LVMH group, while the Saint Laurent brand continues its quest for beauty under the Gucci Group. Exquisite優雅な、繊細な style, vanity虚飾 and women's liberation are some of the ideas the YSL logo connotes本来の意味のほかにーを暗示する． Even after its founder's death, the YSL brand continues to defy summation. (Herald Asahi, June 4)
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When Saint Laurent won the confidence of fashion leader Christian Dior, he was still a design student. After Dior's sudden death in 1957, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent became chief designer of the house of Dior and worked to redefine that brand.
Saint Laurent continually challenged conventions, starting in Paris, which is divided down the middle by the river Seine. On the river's right bank lies the commercial district and on the left, enclaves*孤立した地域 of students, artists and varied cultural groups. For years, France's haute couture*オート・クチュール fashion house were all concentrated on the right bank. Defying*無視する、受け入れない that convention, in 1966, Saint Laurent opened "Rive Gauche"(left bank), his ready-to-wear既製服の women's clothing boutique, on the other side of Seine.
On its opening day, his close friend, actress Catherine Deneuve, came by立ち寄る and bought one of his new designs: a pantsuit. The menswear-inspired style spawned*物を生む a fashion revolution, becoming the uniform of a new generation of women who wore it to show they had no intention of being second-class citizens to men, Alice Rawsthorn writes in her book "Yves Saint Laurent: A biography."
When the designer was 35, he posed nude in an YSL advertising campaign for a men's fragrance. A smile man, he wore only his trademark black-rimmed glasses in the photo. He later said he had intended to create a scandal. Some say Saint Laurent was a man who "defied summation要約 and analysis."
The fashion industry, controlled by ingenuity創意 and financial power, is constantly changing. The house of Dior, where Saint Laurent used to work, has now been absorbed into the giant LVMH group, while the Saint Laurent brand continues its quest for beauty under the Gucci Group. Exquisite優雅な、繊細な style, vanity虚飾 and women's liberation are some of the ideas the YSL logo connotes本来の意味のほかにーを暗示する． Even after its founder's death, the YSL brand continues to defy summation. (Herald Asahi, June 4)
