all the best (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
For the last few years I have featured a "My Favorite Things" series during the holiday season. In the past I have asked designers and tastemakers to share their favorite gifts or holiday memories. This year I thought I would ask for favorite books to either give or receive this holiday. First in the series is the fabulous Los Angeles based interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard . Renowned...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Amber in her tight dress. • Just so you know, Renzo Rosso "will continue to believe in the U.S.," even though he calls it a "tough moment" economically. Americans have apparently spent enough on overpriced Diesel things to allow the brand to grow nearly 2 percent here this year. [ WWD ] • Yves Saint Laurent 's partner, Pierre Bergé, wrote a book in French called...
My Fashion Life (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Fashion had a field day when Tom Ford let rip recently about his time at Yves Saint Laurent, branding Yves and partner Pierre Bergé ‘evil’, so how exciting that he’s opened up again. Pointing out that Laurent and Bergé weren’t even his bosses at the time, he said: “We bought Yves’s company, and Yves had nothing [...]
exshoesme (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Okay, you know how I said that some of the items in the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge auction catalogue were appraised at affordable? I meant affordable in a millionaire-ish sort of way. The auction last week raised 8.9 million euros – that’s a lot more in Canadian dollars, by the way, and three times what [...]
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Perhaps Tom Ford is a control freak, but he'd prefer not to be called one. "I hate that word," Ford admitted to us on the phone this morning from his hotel room in New York. Last night he screened A Single Man at the Lighthouse Screening Room, where pals like Zac Posen and Mike Nichols were visibly moved by Ford's film. "But, in my life, I've often been called a control freak. There...
StyleList Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Filed under: News HAUTE CUISINE Most people head to their local Target for kitchen wares, but true fashionistas head to auctions. According to an auctioneer at Christie's, the current sale of the possessions belonging to Pierre Bergé and the late Yves Saint Laurent are already exceeding sale expectations. Indeed. A set of pots and pans owned by the couple sold for a colossal $22,379! We wonder...
exshoesme (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Style never goes out of style. Not even when it’s left this world. Yves Saint Laurent was a man of style, sophistication and exquisite taste. And while he may have left us, he has left material reflections of that taste and style behind… The second auction of his and Pierre Berge’s objets d’art, furnishings and other visual delights is [...]
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
After auctioning a highly valuable art collection amassed over half a century, Pierre Berge, partner of late pantsuit pioneer Yves Saint Laurent, is putting everyday pieces up for sale this week. Last February's 700-item sale of the YSL/Berge collection smashed record on record, netting 342 million euros (491 million dollars) and making Saint Laurent the top-earning dead celebrity of 2009, according...
Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Tom Ford: I don’t even remember much about my time at Yves Saint Laurent, though I do think some of my best collections were [there]—other than that black-and-white initial one. That one wasn’t very successful and wasn’t very good. But being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business [...] Midas Oracle = About + Archives + Authors +...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
PARIS (AP).- The 18th-century porcelain Yves Saint Laurent ate from, a Cartier watch he used to wear, the leopard-print couches and gilded chairs he lounged on: It's all to hit the auction blocks as the late French couturier's longtime partner liquidates their art-and-knickknack-filled residences. The sale, organized by Christie's from Nov. 17 to 20, is the follow-up to the blockbuster auction earlier...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Nicole Richie fashions. • American Apparel made a $4.2 million profit in the third quarter. [ WWD ] • Ex– Gianfranco Ferré and – Nina Ricci designer Lars Nilsson plans to launch a menswear line named Mr. Nils with the Italian menswear manufacturer Mabro. It will debut at the Italian menswear shows in January. [ WWD ] • Nicole Richie released photos of her entire Winter...
FashionFame (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Giant chandeliers, furniture, paintings, a billiard table and even pots and pans went on show on Tuesday at Christie’s Auction offerings in Paris in second and more homely installment of the Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé “sale of the century”. The first half of this sale, in February, included some of the late fashion designer’s most prized [...]
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In a revealing interview in The Advocate , Tom Ford finally talks in print about his time as the lead designer of Yves Saint Laurent. It was after Gucci acquired the struggling couture house. Ford took the reigns and turned things around. But Tom says his time there was a nightmare and that Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berger treated him terribly. He says that Saint Laurent was "evil."...
StyleList Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Filed under: Fashion , News , Designers & Brands Tom Ford (left) trashes Yves Saint Laurent (right). Photos: Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty | Ron Galella, WireImage The (designer) gloves are off! Yves Saint Laurent may be the highest-earning dead celebrity, but he's not getting much love from designer-turned-director Tom Ford , according to the December/January issue of The Advocate. In a new interview...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Please, just sign us up for whatever she's doing to that face. Audience members walked out of Tracy Morgan 's racy Carnegie Hall performance, where "middle-aged women were the most flabbergasted when he started mimicking explicit sex acts onstage." Twilight's Christian Serratos is getting naked in the woods for a PETA ad. And speaking of posing in the buff, Levi Johnston is after joint custody...
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