Thursday, September 4, 2008

the heir


"How beautiful is it to see the breast or the derrière moving on the street? We are all seduced by the blue of the sky and the red of the flower, why not the behind of a woman? It’s just a beautiful part of nature.”--Stefano Pilati, Creative Director for Yves Saint Laurent
"The Tastemaker"
Lynn Hirschberg
New York Times

It seems like designer profiles are all the rage these days. The myth of Marc Jacobs is covered to great extent in both GQ and The New Yorker. The battle of the T(h)om's made it into The Times earlier this summer and a recent piece on Michael Kors expounded on the sudden rise into rock star designer fame. The Times gets it just right again with an insightful portrait of one of the most influential minds in fashion, Stefano Pilati, the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. You have to be someone so deeply committed to one's own vision and convictions when you send out a collection where the models were obscured with black bowl wigs, black lipstick, and nary a red carpet ready gown in sight.

2 comments:

Leigh said...

i am so going to start comparing my ass to "the blue of the sky and the red of the flower."

The Spicers said...

Loved this article!