Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Resort - 2025

 

"...For Vaccarello's Resort 2025, he has reinvigorated the amorous energy of Yves Saint Laurent's muses, the late Lou Lou de la Falaise (d2011) and Betty Catroux, who is now in her Eighties.  Both encapsulated the erogenous vivacity of the 1970s, with an image floating around on the internet of de la Falaise and Catroux sitting close to Yves Saint Laurent at a dinner table, with de la Falaise in her Boho chic, 70s effortless style, looking relaxed, Catroux leaning forward, her blond hair draped over her shoulders.  Wearing a YSL tailored, trench coat, blazer and mini skirt.  All are smoking, drinking and laughing.  In which Vaccarello, has attempted to redefine both muses looks and styles, aware that both models assisted in defining the dichotomy of Yves Saint Laurent's repertoire, be it  his ability to fuse Eastern stylizations to European bohemianism, while maintaining his love of the late 1960s and 1970s modernism ("Mods") of the clean cut, power suit and miniskirts. 

Vaccarello's fusion of the said muses styles as a single look for a Resort collection has been clevely represented via Yves Saint Laurent's polar opposite aesthetics.  It is not as stoic, and cold as other collections have been under Vaccarello's Saint Laurent, yet the imprinted sexulaity has not be toned down at all, representing an era of liberation and openness." 

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/saint-laurent-resort-2025.html

(A.Glass 2025)