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The Russians Did Save the Art Market!

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:58:43 -0500

The auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris last night brought in an astounding $262 million, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the sale set records for works of seven of the major artists, including Henri Matisse's 1911 still life of cowslips in a vase titled Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, a 1922 Piet Mondrian abstract Composition With Blue, Red, Yellow and Black, and a 1921 Marcel Duchamp readymade of a perfume...

Fashion Roundup: Holly Dunlap Takes a Long Vacay; Victoria Beckham Says Da to Vogue; Barneys For Sale?

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:47:11 -0500

Holly Dunlap is on hiatus from designing her line of footwear and accessories, Hollywould, indefinitely. In the meantime, she plans to surf in Brazil, ski in Switzerland, and sail in Italy. [WWD]

Victoria Beckham will appear on the cover of Russian Vogue's February issue. [Vogue UK]

Barneys is rumored to be up for sale and may be close to naming a new chief executive officer. [WWD]

Yves Saint Laurent began the men's shows in Paris...

Fashion Roundup: Maggie Betts' Dream Comes True; Christian Siriano on Gossip Girl?; YSL Retrospective Planned

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:49:18 -0500

Socialite Maggie Betts hoped that there would be a secret photo shoot with a wind machine at the CFDA awards dinner last night and there totally was! [FWD]

Former Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano was asked to make a guest appearance on Gossip Girl, but he's still considering. [E! via The Cut]

British design couple Mary Eley and Wakako Kishimoto have departed as the design duo behind Cacharel, citing creative differences and brand vision...

Très Tree-Lined Chic

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:06:40 -0500

When French designer Sophie Theallet flew to New York 10 years ago, she’d planned to stay just a month. “I was thinking it was time to move,” she said recently, curled up on a couch in her apartment-slash-“atelier” in a leafy corner of Brooklyn. But then: “I fell in love with, uh”—she lowered her voice to a whisper—“mis-tair.” She giggled and motioned toward her husband and business partner, Steven Francoeur, who was hunched over...

Yves Saint Laurent's Art Collection For Sale

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:49:59 -0400

Christie's International has announced that it will auction off the art collection belonging to Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, Bloomberg reports.

While the particular contents of the collection have not been revealed, it is rumored to be worth as much as $599 million, featuring works by Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse, and Goya.

The auction follows the designer's death on June 1 at his home in Paris. He and Mr. Berge co-founded the...

Morning Memo: New Gig For Scarlett's Brother; Winehouse Takes Her Time

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:41:31 -0400

Scarlett Johansson's brother, Hunter, who until recently worked for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, has reportedly left to work for the Obama campaign. Now they can both have regular email correspondence with the candidate. [P6]

Even though Roman Abramovich reportedly paid Amy Winehouse $2 million to perform at his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's Moscow gallery last week, she still couldn't make it onto the stage on time. [NY Daily News]

Photographer Patrick...

Morning Memo: Mizrahi Gets Slick; Stefani Changes Form

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:27:16 -0400

Isaac Mizrahi's favorite hair pomade has been discontinued, so naturally he holed up in his apartment and made a lifetime supply of his own, to be called I-Hair. [P6]

Being married to Gwen Stefani means getting used to her untamed fashion sense, or as Gavin Rossdale puts it, "It's like marrying three different people a week, because you never know who's going to come out of the bathroom." [P6]

HarperCollins is suing Victoria Gotti, daughter...

All About Yves: Le Roi de Pantsuits Remembered at CFDAs

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:55:22 -0400

“I’m very sad about Yves Saint Laurent, which is why I’m wearing a 30-year-old jacket,” Council of Fashion Designers president Diane Von Furstenberg, clad in a blue “Le Smoking”-esque number by the late designer, confided at the New York Public Library on Monday, June 2. “It’s from my attic.”

Mr. Saint Laurent, who died June 1 in Paris from a brain tumor, was much on people’s minds at this, the annual CFDA...

Yves Saint Laurent's Funeral Scheduled for Thursday

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:52:19 -0400

Yves Saint Laurent's funeral has been scheduled for Thursday at the Eglise Saint-Roch, a Baroque church in Paris according to Women's Wear Daily, with president Nicolas Sarkozy expected to attend.

Meanwhile The Daily Transom has received a statement from chairman of Christian Dior, Bernard Arnault, who said,

"Monsieur Saint-Laurent was the embodiment of French Haute Couture for half a century. He designed for a woman who reconciled the...

Before Project Runway: Yves Saint-Laurent's Make-or-Break Show, 1962

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:52:28 -0400

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Morning Memo: Rest in Peace, Yves Saint-Laurent

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:39:32 -0400

Designer Yves Saint Laurent died at home in his apartment in Paris yesterday at the age of 71. [NY Times]

Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a memoir in 2004 about her drug addiction, was arrested for buying crack on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning from a homeless man. [NY Daily News]

Lindsay Lohan reportedly passed on a $1 million offer from OK! magazine to do a cover where she "comes out" about her...

Simon Woods: Actor! YSL Model! Hillary Supporter?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:40:21 -0500

Yves Saint Laurent’s plans to show his fall mean’s wear collection in a video, instead of on a traditional catwalk, went off without a hitch thanks, in large part, to the film’s sole model, Simon Woods. According to WWD, Mr. Wood’s, and actor who has had roles in Pride and Prejudice and Rome, “looked great” in YSL designer Stefano Pilati’s threads. But that’s only the half of it.

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Lights, Camera, Collection! YSL's Digital Debut

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:26:33 -0500

If Yves Saint-Laurent’s Fall 2008 men’s wear collection debuts on a video instead of on the catwalk, does it exist? According to Stefano Pilati, the YSL designer behind the forthcoming threads, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The Daily reports today that instead of unveiling the collection in the tradition way—elevated walkway, lots of cameras, Anna Wintour in the front row—Mr. Pilati has decided to show it off on the big screen. ...

Fashion, From Gap to Gaultier, Stitched With Cultural Clues

Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:00:00 -0400

A Dedicated Follower of Fashion , by Holly Brubach. Phaidon Press, 232 pages, $29.95.

The End of Fashion: The Mass Marketing of the Clothing Business , by Teri Agins. William Morrow & Company, 320 pages, $25. We all have to get into clothes every day and they have to suit a particular purpose: either make us stand out from a crowd or help us blend into it. This is the function of fashion–as opposed to...