taz, Thanks for the lowdown on the perfumes. I used to wear Babydoll, and must have made a lot of people around me ill. 
Now, I've thankfully graduated and hooked on Serge Lutens. I must check out Cinema on eBay soon, if it's a modern Y. It's such an evocative name. This Pilati collection looks very "Cinema" to me - a black and white collection, very modern and minimal, yet "old fashion modern", the age of Bauhaus, of Cinema like the New Wave, of "Le Smoking", Film Noir, a very pure aesthetic, etc., before CGI, not modern like the 80s or today. It is boring in the way a Bauhaus, eg. Mies van der Rohe, building is boring, but if you spend time with a Miesian building, you will discover it is extremely beautiful and a lot of care has been put into its design evolution. There is the fracas of a Frank Gehry design, and on the surface, people will say it is exciting, but it is actually not thoughtful, rather crude, and to me, boring and repetitive.
Yes, the Louis Vuitton of SS09 reminds me of a LLdlF YSL collection because of the colours, the sexy shapes and the bohemian, loud jewellery, especially the tassles. There is an exuberance in the design that is very sexy, coquette-ish and desirable. YSL, though, did it in a more elegant manner, I feel. Pilati has been on a more sober streak for YSL lately, ever since his "Le Smoking" collection. It has perhaps to do with the times. I remember it was in the early 2000s that the scene was alive with the electric colours and textures of the 80s, but now it is moving to a more estranged age. I was wearing a lot of colours, electro, collaged leather, hunting for slouchy Carlos Falchi reptile bags on eBay, etc., a few years ago, but now, I feel that that's a bit "over". It's true though, that Pilati didn't really go there, even though his early floral collections were romantic.
Yves himself wasn't a bohemian, and always in his white lab coat or black tux. In that sense, if I want to dress like the designer himself, I'd opt for the current Pilati approach. So yes, perhaps in happier times, that very exuberant exotic butterfly will be walking the Pilati runway and I surely look forward to that.
Now, I've thankfully graduated and hooked on Serge Lutens. I must check out Cinema on eBay soon, if it's a modern Y. It's such an evocative name. This Pilati collection looks very "Cinema" to me - a black and white collection, very modern and minimal, yet "old fashion modern", the age of Bauhaus, of Cinema like the New Wave, of "Le Smoking", Film Noir, a very pure aesthetic, etc., before CGI, not modern like the 80s or today. It is boring in the way a Bauhaus, eg. Mies van der Rohe, building is boring, but if you spend time with a Miesian building, you will discover it is extremely beautiful and a lot of care has been put into its design evolution. There is the fracas of a Frank Gehry design, and on the surface, people will say it is exciting, but it is actually not thoughtful, rather crude, and to me, boring and repetitive.Yes, the Louis Vuitton of SS09 reminds me of a LLdlF YSL collection because of the colours, the sexy shapes and the bohemian, loud jewellery, especially the tassles. There is an exuberance in the design that is very sexy, coquette-ish and desirable. YSL, though, did it in a more elegant manner, I feel. Pilati has been on a more sober streak for YSL lately, ever since his "Le Smoking" collection. It has perhaps to do with the times. I remember it was in the early 2000s that the scene was alive with the electric colours and textures of the 80s, but now it is moving to a more estranged age. I was wearing a lot of colours, electro, collaged leather, hunting for slouchy Carlos Falchi reptile bags on eBay, etc., a few years ago, but now, I feel that that's a bit "over". It's true though, that Pilati didn't really go there, even though his early floral collections were romantic.
Yves himself wasn't a bohemian, and always in his white lab coat or black tux. In that sense, if I want to dress like the designer himself, I'd opt for the current Pilati approach. So yes, perhaps in happier times, that very exuberant exotic butterfly will be walking the Pilati runway and I surely look forward to that.
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This collection is giving me Belle du Jour flashbacks.
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