Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

"...Vaccarello's Spring 2025 collection went from his famed eros and amourous benchmarks of the feminine, to the masculine of late 1970s Yves Saint Laurent powersuits, and then, towards the end of the collection, back to the amatory.  In a strange dichotomy of reinvigorating the epicureanism of Fifty years ago, which conked out in the stagnated and entrepreneurial wishfulness of the 1990s.  But, one cannot deny, despite the fusing of timelines in an ad hoc way, Vaccarello's ability to craft his Saint Laurent imprint with precision.   The collection is striking, but not ground breaking.  His sexulalized elements of the sheer, boho chic inspired lace cocktail dresses are on display.  When it was infidelity, Wall Street ambitions, Manhattan cocktails and the ease of a one-night-stand.  With the beginning of the collection, representing the female models adorning the late Yves Saint Laurent's own stylized ensemble, that he wore when he was alive..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/saint-laurent-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2024)