"Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, empowered women by reinventing pants as a sleek, elegant staple of the female wardrobe.
Saint Laurent, 71, died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, said Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent's close friend and business partner for four decades."
I hope my blog doesn't seem terribly morbid, but a lot of incredible people seem to be dying. At any rate, Yves Saint Laurent began creating beautiful clothing in the 1950s and did so until his retirement in 2002. I am especially fond of his garments inspired by (or appropriated from?) other 20th century artists, like his 1965 Mondrian dress (below).
Here's Kate Moss in one of the more recent Yves Saint Laurent ad campaigns.
Well, well, well. I was just checking out www.antigirl.com looking through the collection called "Women" and I noticed this piece. What made it particularly note-worthy to me was the fact that I recognized the source material as a photoshoot from a W magazine from several years ago with Kate Moss posing as a Marilyn Monroe-esqe character. I read waaaay too many magazines! But this shoot was great (I tend to love W fashion spreads) and, in fact, I have also used images from it in some of my own collages (below). Of course, I hope that pointing out source material doesn't ruin the mystique of collages for you, because for me it's half the fun!
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