Yves Saint Laurent

The legendary YSL logo was designed in 1963 by Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron a/k/a Cassandre

I'm currently entrenched in this design project.

Rose Cordero: March 2010 Vogue Paris cover.

"I think that part of that mythology forged at Yves Saint Laurent by astounding models like Katoucha has been missing from the fashion archives in years. Rose to my eye is a brilliant opportunity to refresh that imagery.. that feeling that is Parisienne couture ...that is extreme elegance... "

TI: Thu Jan 15th , 2009

"TI really needs to stop hyping these girls up so much. It wasn't long ago that he put "La Rosa Negra" on this pedestal, and dubbed her the Next big thing, close to Iconic and so on and so forth. Where is she now, although she has done ok, her career has not been as BIG as TI made it out to seem."

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, Nov 12th 2009

A legendary tastemaker in the legendary photograph

TI got a tip today that a certain atelier in Paris has the above portrait of the Vicomtesse de Noailles,

The first day in Marrakesh I watched the sunset and thought "This world is more ancient than I could ever imagine"

Marrakesh is only 3 hrs from Paris. But it also feels like 4,000 years away.

Yves Saint Laurent residence photographed by Ivan Terestchenko

I first became aware of this book via sharp comments on TI regarding Hedi Slimane's pictures of Berge and St Laurent's rue Babylone pad in Vogue Paris.

See Hedi Slimane's close-up view of Yves Saint Laurent's lost world

Rose Cordero bolts out the gate in the FW 09 sweepstakes: Polaroid by Paul Rowland

The month before shows is the most fun for me when editing at MDC. Why? Because I love watching the drama build around the incoming new faces. The flurry of emails flickering back and forth through the industry over Supreme's Rose Cordero right this minute is pretty damn dramatic and deservedly so. Here's an excerpt of the dialogue between Paul at Supreme and myself yesterday afternoon.

Seeking a large Hanns-Peter Krafft sheep stool

La Naomi/IMG for YSL FW 08 as seen in the subway tunnels of NY

Still from "5 Avenue Marceau"

"The idea that Bergotte was not wholly and permanently dead is by no means improbable. They buried him but all through the night of mourning, in lighted bookshop windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels with outstretched wings and seemed, for him who was no more, the symbol of his resurrection"
Marcel Proust in La Prisoniere from " À la recherche du temps perdu"