It’s in a Hedi Slimane photoshoot that Cara Delevingne lasciviously strikes her pose alongside Cole Smith, reflecting with the same singularity the grunge universe that the designer attempts to infuse into his collections with an elegant melancholy. The creative director for Yves Saint Laurent uninhibitedly integrates musical flow into fashion:“I photograph a lot of musicians,...
« I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes. »
According to denim historian Daniel Friedmann, the 501 is a sort of “fraternal second skin”. But when the Bavarian entrepreneur that Levi Strauss was set off in 1853 for a San Francisco overpopulated with miners on a quest for gold in the Sierra Nevada, he was far from suspecting that his denim would go down...
With his numerous borrowings from the male, blue collar wardrobe, he irrefutably earned his work a social dimension. Saint Laurent is style beyond fashion. In 1978, he showed his concept to journalist John Helpern: “What I want to make is a perfect type – a type of perfect garment, even if it’s a simple blouse...
Jean Paul Gaultier grew up with his grandmother in France’s Val-de-Marne. She would soon get him started in couture; it was only natural that at age 6 he created his very first outfits, to dress up his teddy bear. One day, he found a corset at his grandmother’s house. This piece, that once enclosed the...
Impeccable black bangs, emblematic red lips, a mischievous regard barely hidden underneath glasses with a curly wrought iron finish. An entirely black and white allure, a clean, graphic strand. This is Chantal Thomass, queen of capricious, titillating lingerie, popular with elegant, romantic types. Chantal Thomass is a pioneer in transcending genres. Before she took an...
