Saint Laurent S/S 2014 Paris

[almudena]

Why does he insist on taking such a respectable house down this trashy direction?

Because he can!

 

[MulletProof]

your mom faking guitar destruction with Lynyrd Skynyrd on.

 

[gossiping]

i love some of the leather skirts, one shoulder dresses are beautiful but some of the jackets really ruin it actually. i still like it though i'd rather see this than some "experimental" rubbish like celine this season

 

[donnie darko]

Awful

His collections look exactly like the clothes sold in the 'divided' section of H&M about 5 years ago, mainly purchased by teenaged emos. The most recent collection looks like a set of snaps from the Misshapes club circa 2006. Just awful.

 

[t-rex]

Hedi's rock girl fused with Balmain; Vogue Paris is set!

 

[Deleted member 130879]

your mom faking guitar destruction with Lynyrd Skynyrd on.

So true thou!

 

[TianCouture]

Love the flame print top, despise everything else. That lip print should be used by Prada and Prada only.

 

[KKnardi]

Hedi's rock girl fused with Balmain; Vogue Paris is set!

yeah, this collection feels a little like that. I really tried hard to make something out of anything in this collection - but to no success. Honestly, there's a few pieces one could say are good but I'm really not flattered by the teenage aesthetic- silver boots with a golden dress, green skit? it all feels like a teenager did the styling.

sadly, but honestly it is a no from me.

 

[jeanclaude]

I think Saint Laurent should make a collaboration with Claire´s. Like right now!!

 

[Hermes1922]

Good thing they polished up a bit , this collection is not as Courtney Love as the last one

 

[Pricciao]

Definitely better than last season but still bad. Zero innovation or creativity.

he never creates, that's not his forte alright.

 

[vandekamp]

Hideous and boring. Ugh stop stop stop.

 

[Caffeine]

OMG...this is cheap and trashy. Forever21 anyone?

 

[Fashiognosis]

Yves Saint Laurent is cursing in his grave

 

[haydn]

lol.. i really liked this. there are so many good looks, and all are very wearable (with the exception of that black and white striped number down one leg)! but the negative comments are so entertaining!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

...and all are very wearable (with the exception of that black and white striped number down one leg)!

"Wearable" for whom and where?

It's wearability is highly limited!

Unless you're a model or similar, and perhaps you're going clubbing, how or where else does one don these very short skirts and prom dresses?

I think the suits/jackets and outerwear are wearable. But a lot of the looks in this collection are limiting...

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

I love it for the attitude he gives his collections, this is a girl who walks cool and looks cool and will be that moody looking girl at the party everyone wants to talk to. I do wish there was a bit more design, like maybe some more of those ruffled party dresses but I can't complain. I'm sure it will be very influential and come fall 2014 everyone will be doing this eighties party look (just like fall 2009 all over again)

 

[Marc10]

By Tim Blanks

If Edie Campbell didn't already exist, Hedi Slimane would surely have redirected some Kering fundage to make her in a lab somewhere. With her sullen, knowing pout and dyed black mullet, the British model embodied every last scintilla of Slimane's obsessive reconceptualization of Girls Today when she opened this evening's Saint Laurent show. And for those selfsame girls in the audience, the designer opened yet more doors to a past that unraveled when they were mere gleams in God's eye.

There is simply no underestimating the power of Things We Missed Out On. The Japanese are absolute masters—mistresses?—at turning back the clock. Maybe that's why Slimane's collection felt like an impeccably detailed capsule of the Japanese rocker chick's wardrobe: the Debbie Harry bit, the Chelsea girl, the idiosyncratic punky eleganza. And now that the initial ouch of controversy surrounding his approach to the house has faded, it's easer to see the YSL in Saint Laurent: the lip print, say, or the fabulous trench or the army jacket or the one-shouldered evening extravaganza. Fact is, Hedi's Saint Laurent now has a life in the stores, and that life is so much more generous than what he parades on his catwalk.

Which takes us back to the show as manifesto: The artist that Slimane selected as tonight's tentpole was Guy de Cointet. French, L.A.-based (sounds familiar), making work that was "lifelike and contrived" (we'll let that one lie), Cointet was little known but an influence on some major L.A. artists who followed. The music was a new remix of millennial L.A. band Liars. Slimane was responsible for the staging (breathtaking, with its mechanized light installation) and styling (more of a love-it-or-hate-it proposition, with its fried hair). There is no longer any shock of the whatever in what he is offering, but his compulsion to share his obsessions is irresistible. And there is some kind of weird charity in the way he lets you step back from the catwalk march-past and relish the context in which he presents his challenge to you. At this point, it seems inescapable that it's coming from A Place of Love.

style

 

[mspieller]

cheap and boring, its like he didn't put any effort in this collection.

 

[Marc10]

By Eric Wilson

Since we last met at Saint Laurent and the ongoing reinvention of the storied Parisian label by Hedi Slimane, the tides have turned remarkably in the designer’s favor. Coverage in fashion magazines of his fall collection, shown in February, has been overwhelmingly positive, prompting grunge features in W, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and that’s just in the United States.

According to MediaRadar, a publishing and advertising research agency, the September issues of the major magazines gave so many credits to the label that it ranked third among luxury brands, after Dior and Chanel, with 231 mentions of Yves Saint Laurent. It was the only one of the brands owned by the conglomerate Kering to rank in the top 10. And outside the United States, Saint Laurent clothes are appearing on magazine covers like the November issue of Japanese Vogue, which shows Karlie Kloss in a blush pink chubby and diamante tights, the same outfit worn by Kate Upton on a version of the September cover of American Elle.

So the mood at Mr. Slimane’s spring showing on Monday night was decidedly less hostile, both from the perspective of the audience and, it would appear, that of the designer, for the main reason that, by most accounts, the clothes are selling. So what if Kanye West dedicated a less than flattering song to Mr. Slimane? Agnès Boulard, the French television personality, was seen at the shows that day wearing a red flannel shirt from the Saint Laurent fall collection. Among the music and social set that turned out for the spring show were Lenny Kravitz, Miguel, the Daft Punk guys in baseball caps and Valerie Trierweiler, the partner of the president of France.

The show, once again in an upper gallery of the Grand Palais, began with a light show in the form of a scaffolding structure erected over the dark runway, with large triangular lights that rotated like windmills at the beginning and end of the presentation. The music this season was a remix of a 1999 recording by Liars that sounded suitably punk for the collection, which was part punk rock and part traditional Saint Laurent.

It was traditional in the sense that there were many versions of le smoking, the tuxedo jacket made into a famous fashion staple by Yves Saint Laurent, here shown by Mr. Slimane in slimmed-down versions that were worn over sheer black blouses that revealed the models’ breasts, or over black leather skirts that were often shorter than the jackets themselves. The effect was of a skimpily dressed woman who borrowed a man’s jacket to keep warm, but the models pounded down the runway with such determination that you could scarcely describe the gesture as chivalrous.

The other half was in keeping with Mr. Slimane’s more audacious recent history, with outfits that included a pink-and-black striped sequin tank top worn with a leopard-print skirt, a black dress draped at the side with a print of red lips, a black leather biker jacket with a zebra stripe lining, a one-shoulder sequin top with a burning flames motif worn with a snakeskin skirt and a gold lamé dress that also draped at the side.

nytimes