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Fashion Notes: The Art and Innovation of Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion Notes: The Art and Innovation of Yves Saint Laurent
Posted by Dain, Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:54 AM (Eastern)
Those who work with fashion or cosmetics often bemoan, rather defensively I might add, that people don't take them seriously. Well, of course not. Fashion isn't serious. It is important, a celebration of beauty and taste, but when you take all the enjoyment out of it, what's the point?
For one thing, I used to maintain that fashion and makeup is an art, but now I am not so sure. Even at its most aesthetic, and sometimes most unwearable, fashion is not art as life but life as art, an elaboration on the functional. In painting and music and literature there is no direct relationship between medium and subject, when one gazes at the Sistine Chapel it is not the paint and mortar that we see, though that is exactly what we see. Yet, even dining on quails financière in couture is still hot food and some clothes.
Still, I daresay some of the same elements exist in fashion as they do in "high" art. Innovation, for one. Consider Yves Saint Laurent's 1962 show, which, being a vintage clip, only gives you a sense of the beauty of the clothes:
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