Post a Totally Random Moment From Fashion History...

[blueorchid]

I think he was a closet case.

After reading about his predictions, he was probably too busy for this carnal world. He might have had more than enough sex in his previous life as a "prostitute in the time of Louis XV."

 

[blueorchid]

Technically, I guess it wasn't "random" random, because this was done through UNESCO, but Pierre Cardin visiting Chernobyl




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[jeanclaude]

Technically, I guess it wasn't "random" random, because this was done through UNESCO, but Pierre Cardin visiting Chernobyl

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Why?? Did he want to sell licensed Cardin Geiger counters???

 

[blueorchid]

Why?? Did he want to sell licensed Cardin Geiger counters???

I guess this is what his interests were as a UNESCO Ambassador:



Naturally, he designed a coin:



And a scarf (who doesn't want a Chernobyl scarf?)...


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[jeanclaude]

I guess this is what his interests were as a UNESCO Ambassador:

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Naturally, he designed a coin:

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And a scarf (who doesn't want a Chernobyl scarf?)...

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As if his 80s/90s/00s/10s weren´t radioactive enough...

 

[Steddycam91]

Uma Thurman for Louis Vuitton S/S 2005:

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...and then as the face of Givenchy's Ange ou Démon Le Secret fragrance in 2009:

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[blueorchid]

I did a ton of cleaning this evening and I ended up flipping through my collection of Vogue Japan and some of those cover lines were... clunkers. I also forgot that they had a lot of fun freebies with the magazine (which I never removed because I'm... a completionist?).



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[brandon J pierre]

I think he was a closet case.

His new fragrance is awful. Homosexuals can make perfumes for men, but not for women because they don't love them."


Man that's funny 😂 🤣 😂 🤣. He was a full on nutcase let alone closet case. God I wonder where Karl lagerfield thought about this guy.

 

[brandon J pierre]

I did a ton of cleaning this evening and I ended up flipping through my collection of Vogue Japan and some of those cover lines were... clunkers. I also forgot that they had a lot of fun freebies with the magazine (which I never removed because I'm... a completionist?).

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Look at all those wonderful beautiful Asian Japanese woman.

 

[Creative]

I always thought Paco Rabanne was quite boring. 🫢

Cardin is one of the most underrated designers in history. A real talent.

 

[jeanclaude]

I always thought Paco Rabanne was quite boring. 🫢

Cardin is one of the most underrated designers in history. A real talent.

Cardin was amazing from the 50s to the 70s. From the 80s onward it was pure decadence.

 

[blueorchid]

WWD just casually mentioning that Pierre Bergé's helicopter was blown up in 1981 (oh, lol and YSL being sued by Jacques Estrel for plagiarism) :


WWD Archive

 

[brandon J pierre]

The great couturier Lindsay Lohan debut in Paris fashion week



Hey you guys was it really that bad? 😭

 

[Scotty]

We need Lindsay back in Ungaro.

 

[brandon J pierre]

We need Lindsay back in Ungaro.

Might as well 😂

 

[Steddycam91]

The late Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint Laurent, Léa Seydoux as Lucie de la Falaise, Louis Garrel as Jacques de Bascher, and Aymeline Valade as Betty Catroux in the (excellent) 2014 film Saint Laurent...



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[eugenius]

The late Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint Laurent, Léa Seydoux as Lucie de la Falaise, Louis Garrel as Jacques de Bascher, and Aymeline Valade as Betty Catroux in the (excellent) 2014 film Saint Laurent...
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My favorite scene was when he came out of the closet. Otherwise, only the fashions saved this film, but barely.

 

[blueorchid]

Kate Betts re-designing the Harper's Bazaar logo for some reason.


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[brandon J pierre]

Kate Betts re-designing the Harper's Bazaar logo for some reason.

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I remember how controversial this was I was in middle school and I had just got my subscription to bizarre from my lovely grandmother 🥰

 

[Lola701]

Kate Betts re-designing the Harper's Bazaar logo for some reason.

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Probably ego and the fear of being in the shadows of the legacy of Liz and Fabien.

It’s not a terrible layout per say but so not for what Bazaar was at that time in terms of standards.