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Article: YSL EXHIBIT CELEBRATES KEMPNER.(Yves Saint Laurent)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- May 15, 2007
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Byline: Robert Murphy
PARIS - Of all the legends related to the house of Yves Saint Laurent, none perhaps is more evocative of the atmosphere of its piquant times than the tale of Nan Kempner dropping her trousers at La Cte Basque in 1968.
That a matre d' would tell a woman she couldn't dine in couture pants - and that Kempner would surreptitiously shed her satin trousers to enter barely concealed in a YSL smoking tunic - shows how many dos and don'ts have flown out the window over the last 40 years.
But as much as things have changed, many have stayed the same. At least when it comes to great-looking clothes, which seems to be the point of ...