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Article: GRAND FINALE.(Yves Saint Laurent)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- January 8, 2002
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NEW YORK -- Yves Saint Laurent represents what fashion should be about -- and isn't today.
Saint Laurent understands that fashion is partly technique and partly concept. Today, designers have concepts that get attention on the runways, while Saint Laurent believes that what truly matters is how women are going to wear the clothes on the streets.
Fashion is now all about flash, dash and cash -- and the tacky -- and Saint Laurent never approached it that way. That doesn't mean he's old-fashioned, as some people now think. When he was younger, he saw on the streets how young people dressed and he reacted. After all, he took part in the Paris ...