Saint Laurent Resort 2015

[Deleted member 7575]

^^^ I felt the same way when SLP first debuted.

I still don't like some of the presentations/styling, but what I liked, and was most impressed with, was how directional, how focused and how strong Hedi's design identity-- the vision was for the label.

You know, that's fine if you don't like the direction he's given to the label, but I don't see a lack of respect for Yves, nor do I think that's ever the case. If anything, he's made YSL relevant for the times. Marc and yourself already pointed out the obvious YSL signatures that's become a mainstay in Hedi's SLP shows-- just on, and in a younger form now. I feel those complaining seem to just hate how Hedi's branded the YSL label...? Would bringing in LouLou and Daniel for the campaigns instead of the young indie types satisfy some people's need for "true" YSL?

If all a designer coming into an old House did was rigidly "respect" the signatures of the original designer without trying anything new, anything different, anything that is their own-- my god, that would be the most boring and timid approach.

Sadly Loulou is no longer with us but a Betty Catroux collection/ad campaign would def make me happy!

 

[nita-karoliina]

I love this.very cool and wearable.

 

[Phuel]

Sadly Loulou is no longer with us but a Betty Catroux collection/ad campaign would def make me happy!

Yes, of course, thanks for the correction. I meant Lucy. I always thought her and her brother looked so great together, and would love love love to see them in a campaign for SLP. The ideas I have... I'm sure someone will point them out as old, as irrelevant, and that they'd prefer the hot new pretty young things of the moment-- hell, I'm sure even Hedi would think they're too old...

Beside Helmut, Hedi is the only other designer that heavily features denim and makes it work alongside his more high fashion pieces without it all looking like corporate branding. And his new millennium stint at YSL Homme still remains a benchmark in men's high fashion for me-- and maybe, that alone is enough for me to admire him still. Well, that and his last presentation with the scaffolding-structure that instantly conjures up for me Blondie's "Dreaming" video, and how charming he incorporated Yves signature jewel-tones with the attitude of the models just reminds me how Hedi really gets it beyond just fashion.

(I was watching an old Romeo Gigli show from the late-80s, and the original soundtrack was Ella and Louis Armstrong singing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"... WTF... I had always envisioned Gigli's accompanying soundtrack to be otherworldly, tribal, obscure... not stock jazz-lite that's palyed at your local department store. It completely ruined the image of a gentle, Byzantine princess sleepwalking in a fevered dream to the pizzicato of a mandolin I had always held for the Gigli image. LOL)

 

[PROPERMENTAL]

i dont want to ever read the word creative next to hedis name again - i just cant believe hes selling this Anna Sui crap as hot ****?? there is nothing creative in this whole stealing the 70s once again, and consumerism is not what the people he stole it from were at all about. i find him a little sad, i mean - does he really want to be remembered as a designer who didnt create anything new to the world during his time? does he even consider himself as a designer? because to me he is a bore of a stylist who wants to be cool in the eyes of rockstars. hedi please go back to photographing or just mens wear and in return we will all pretend this never happened (and lets give someone with originality a shot)

 

[eizhowa]

I know this is not really the focus of fashion today, but why do designers like Saint Laurent have to "new"? Why can't they just do "better"?

Designing is about moving forward, but to what end? Just for the sake of making something new, or for making something better?

I think there is room for both making stuff "better" and making "new" stuff in fashion...

 

[vandekamp]

I like the hats. That's about it...