For as long as I can remember, he's always been frail in mind and body, but he's carried on regardless. I always felt that his creativity was what sustained him; for him, everything else in his life came second, including his physical health. His talk of his era being over would worry me, because the day he gives up inside is the day he dies. That is my impression of the man.
Your comments seem quite poetic,
not intending to start a debate but i disagree with them, how can one say that one of the most remarkable designer to have lived be frail in the mind, when one HAS to have an exceedingly strong mind t create at the level that he has?
would you not also think that life would be really sad if it was only his creativity that sustained him, why should people have a reason to live outside of life itself and the fact that God created man to live?
I think it is kind of foolish, of him or anyone else to think that his era is over, of course, not very many women dresses today, the way he designed and he is not producing collections any more, but there is still a company that bears his name, there are still designers who are constantly inspired by the body of work that He has produced.
What he should do now is make himself accessible, to pass on the knowledge he has to men like Pilati, and any other young designer who is eager to learn from someone like him....................... Maybe that would be good for his health and it would ensure that such brilliance did not die with his generation
I remember once a commentator commenting on the drug struggles of soccer Great Diego Maradona,
the commentator said
"we all have to have some kind of weakness, we all have to have some kind of suffering, because those of us who are extraordinarily gifted, if we didn't have any weakness or struggles, others would take us to be some kind of God, other than mortals".
Maybe he needed to struggle, to be frail of the body, as Gods way of reminding us that a designer as Good as he is, is still Human.................
YVES SAINT LAURENT ON THE MEND
