Excerpt: Saint Laurent Pre-Fall 2025

 

"Yves Saint Laurent's decadence, and expose of the fluidity that is truly within the realm of the feminine, where his late 1960s tuxedos and colonialism inspired smoking jackets (he was born in Oran, Algeria), morphed into wider shoulder padded, power suit dominatrix esque personae of the late 1970s and early 1980s via Saint Laurent's muses, who graced the runways of Paris showcasing the spill over from 70s eros, into the 80s accentuated carnal.  Of course Anthony Vaccarello's Saint Laurent, has indeed tracked the late French fashion designer's iconic arrays, to which Yves mastered over the five decades of his tenure, before his death in 2008. And there is no doubt that Vaccarello, who began is creative direction of Saint Laurent in 2016, has ramped up the sex appeal to its epicurean highs..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/05/saint-laurent-pre-fall-2025.html 

(A.Glass 2025)