Decades Of Design

Decades Of Design

THE Denver Art Museum, Colorado, is set to play host to new exhibition - Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective - this March. The exhibit will display work spanning the deisgner's life, from his first days with Dior in 1958 up until his final catwalk collection in 2002.

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Two hundred haute couture designs - some of which were worn by stars including Princess Grace of Monaco, Catherine Deneuve and Paloma Picasso - will be exhibited, accompanied by photographs, drawings and films. Particular emphasis will be placed upon Saint Laurent's introduction of traditional men's attire - such as the tuxedo and trouser suit: Le Smoking - to haute couture, which subsequently impacted on the modern woman's wardrobe.

The exhibition will be on show at the museum from March 25 to July 8 2012. Tickets go on sale to the general public on 20 January 2012.

YOU SHOULD SEE: Yves Saint Laurent's final catwalk show...

YOU SHOULD SEE: The YSL catwalk archive...

Source: VOGUE – Kattie west - 16 January 2012

Red Sole Fight...

Red Sole Fight

Updated Wednesday October 19, 10.31am:  Christian Louboutin has launched an appeal against the court's decision not to grant an injunction stopping Yves Saint Laurent from producing red-soled shoes - but a verdict may not be passed until 2012. The shoe label filed its first brief to the Court of Appeal in Manhattan on Monday with the hopes of protecting its trademark red soles, whilst YSL's representatives have not yet filed the expected counter-suit.

"All the briefs from both sides are on a schedule that the Court of Appeals agreed with, to wit: all done and in before the end of the year," Louboutin's lawyer told WWD. "Considering what is at stake, it is probably fair to assume a ruling sometime in early spring, if not earlier."

Source: VOGUE -  LAUREN MILLIGAN 01 June 2011