There’s the echo of a Roxy Music video in Hedi Slimane’s latest,and possibly last, collection for fashion houseSince 2012, or when designer Hedi Slimane began his reboot of the Saint Laurent brand,the label has been closely linked with music. Whether that be the young indie bands which populated the front row of his shows to the chagrin of uptight fashion editors banished to the rows behind them, or the designs themselves which are frequently dosed with gig culture – Glastonbury wellies and Courtney esteem tiaras were a feature of his last show in Paris. Advocates of the brand are often those who play music for a living, and from Justin Bieber to Keith Richards.
So it was meaningful that at the Saint Laurent show in Paris on Monday evening – the moment part of the brand’s fall collection which began in blockbuster gig fashion in LA last month – that there was no catwalk music at all. Instead,the soundtrack was simply the voice of Benedicte de Ginestous announcing the arrival of each of the outfits. “Numero un ... number one,” she declared in a tone at once overly dramatic but also compelling. The significance of this device was not lost on the audience seated on personalised chairs in marble-heavy salons – de Ginestous announced the numbers of each study for Yves Saint Laurent’s couture shows between 1977 and 2002.
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Source: theguardian.com