SAINT LAURENT BACK TO MUSIC...

It's only a month after the parade Saint Laurent Palais Ghent. Second women's collection designed by Hedi Slimane for the house that has always been French elegance and international style. A collection that has left shocked printing but made the happiness of buyers imposing Saint Laurent as the best selling brand in department stores in Asia and America and consecrating Slimane creative talents as one of the few remaining after the departure of the circus / circle of fashion Martin Margiela and Helmut Lang
Slimane, like all great fashion system, see Karl Lagerfeld, is not content with designing clothes, but a visionary like few others, describes a world through portraits, musical collaborations and above all confidentiality and a mystery reminiscent of respect for their work could only have the great couturiers of the past as Monsieur Christian Dior or Yves. Slimane's aesthetic reinterprets the rock world, is rebellious, androgynous because without sex, not counterfeit. In two seasons, in only a few collections, if you include the men's and the women pre, Slimane has shown once again that grunge can be reinterpreted in a luxury surpassing grand too long Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs, inventors according to some This grungy style that our mothers would call simply dirty.
The love of rock, for a bohemian lifestyle, almost borderline, but especially for the music icons of the moment is to be found in the DNA of the Maison Saint Laurent when still bore the name of the founder and Yves in 1971 when he designed clothes for the wedding of Mick and Bianca Jagger stopping in time and making that image is immortal in the history of music in that style.
The link between the maison Saint Laurent and rock icon will then be taken up by Slimane himself who, newly appointed in 2011 captures Christopher Owens, the voice of Girls as the new spokesperson of the line man (maybe because it reminds Kurt Cobain?). But the association fashion and music or punk rock and YSL is to still further back when a young Slimane creative director of Rive Gauche first man and then draws the Dior Homme suit perfect and super slim the unique and true rock icons like David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Franz Ferdinand or in his years of retirement from the fashion scene, when the passion for photography led him to celebrate The Rock Diary, the title is not a case, the music legends and newcomers.
For the spring-summer 2013 advertising campaign Slimane chose the faces of Courtney Love, Cobain's widow, to whom the show last month was clearly inspired, Kim Gordon and Marilyn Manson. The Saint Laurent Music Project includes not only the images of adv where the stars have opted to wear sunglasses leaders ranging from iconic pieces, collection and pre-collection, but also exclusive soundtrack for the show Saint Laurent like last March written by Thee Oh See, new protégé Slimane and maybe next testimonial of the maison.
From October 2012 joined the project in collaboration with DAFT PUNK, who was commissioned to create the soundtrack for the inaugural parade of Saint Laurent. To April 2013 were presented the new images they see the two musicians portrayed by Hedi Slimane in the spring-summer 2013 advertising campaign. Both wear the iconic black jacket "THE SMOKING" designed specifically for them.