Christian Lacroix, the heir to Yves St Laurent – fashion archive, 1987 :-: the Guardian
18 October 1987 At the unveiling of his first own label collection, fashion editors stood on chairs ..
18 October 1987 At the unveiling of his first own label collection, fashion editors stood on chairs to weep and throw flowers at the newly-crowned king
The Observer
In August 1961, Yves Saint Laurent declared, ‘Haute couture cannot be modernised.’ It was a bold statement and a sign of the times, for at the dawn of the Sixties it seemed obvious that mass-produced, ready-to-wear fashion was the way forward in a new, young-spirited, democratic age. Haute couture had become an anachronism, the province of the rich, the stuffy and the middle-aged – and would never again hold sway over the world of fashion.
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