Yves Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2010 RTW Collection

As YSL program notes put it, “the drive toward a natural and honest chic, an aesthetic paradigm of new minimalism” is picking up speed during Paris Fashion Week. The intellectual aspirations of Stefano Pilati, always lead him to think long and hard about contemporaneity.

Some designs from Spring/Summer 2010 collection, appeared to stem from Saint Laurent archive, albeit at a great remove. Flounces, strawberries, and peasant influences can be traced back to seventies. Though Pilati’s off-the-shoulder dresses were abstracted from the source, and were made erotic with black leather short shorts and fishnet stockings. Read More>>