Clothes always fit ya, Life is a pop of the cherry, When you’re a boy…
In a feature regarding this season’s clobber, Adam Tschorn of the Los Angeles Times reports that Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati found inspiration in the style of David Bowie for this latest YSL project…here’s an excerpt from the piece:
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Yves Saint Laurent didn’t hold a runway show this season, instead channeling resources into an arresting video starring British actor Simon Woods (HBO viewers will recognize him as Gaius Octavian from “Rome”). In the video, which can be viewed at www.ysl.com, Woods swirls, splashes and thrashes his way through a shower of rose petals, while kitted out in the fall/winter collection, and pocket squares tumble through the air backed by an infectious, pulsating soundtrack.
“The message is fashion for everybody,” the designer, Stefano Pilati, said of the project. So it was no surprise that his inspiration was David Bowie, the archetypal creative chameleon. The collection similarly had it both ways — some trousers were tapered, others flared; there were velvet biker jackets and three-quarter-length coats that could have been pulled from a Pendleton catalog. Bowie-esque touches included slim silhouettes and lighting bolt details.
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It’s a little over seven minutes long but it’s worth a look, as, apart from the inclusion of the very handsome British actor Simon Woods as the clothes horse, the whole thing is accompanied by a soundtrack comprising a kind of mash-up that includes Lou Reed via Portishead and LCD Soundsystem concluding with a section of the brilliant (IMHO…but not many others’) 1997 Aphex Twin remix of “Heroes” which combined David Bowie’s original vocal recording with the Philip Glass instrumental score to brilliant effect.