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Retail Envy: Saint Laurent New Women’s Store on Rodeo Drive

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While we hate to admit it, women might be are definitely winning the battle of having the best places to shop, as evidenced by the recent re-opening of Saint Laurent’s new retail concept located at 326 North Rodeo Drive. The massive 10,000 square foot space—which was designed by Creative Director Hedi Slimane—is comprised of three modern Art Deco-inspired floors and is the brand’s largest women’s store in the world.

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Featuring rich, white marble floors, and polished ebony-hued walls, the interior has an overall monochromatic color palette and is contrasted with geometric accents in silver and brass. The resulting effect is a study on the juxtaposition of elegance with edge that makes up the iconic brand’s DNA. The store’s first floor is solely dedicated to the Paris-based label’s casual offerings, while the second floor gives shoppers a more intimate experience with ready-to-wear and shoes. The private dressing salon—which takes up the space’s third floor—will, undoubtedly, be a domain for VIP clients and may also lend itself to a few celebrity sightings come next year’s award season.

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With its dramatic architectural features, vintage furniture, and intriguing African-art pieces, the new women’s Saint Laurent store is not only selling the latest look in it-girl fashion, but also offers an exciting interior to buy it in. You may have won this round ladies, but you won’t hold the torch for long.

 

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À-la-Mexique Knocks Off Fashion’s Most Famous Names for a Cause

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We do not generally gravitate towards the streetwear trend of fashion wordplay made famous by designer Brian Lichtenberg—we’re team Slimane, thank you very much!—but when it comes helping a good cause, we’re all ears. Enter À-la-Mexique, a collaboration between NYC-based publicist Gabriel Rivera-Barraza and Simon Guindi Cohen of the brand SPƎNGLISH. The limited edition capsule collection translates four iconic symbols of fashion (Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Alexander McQueen) into a modern context in an attempt to raise awareness for the need for peace in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico—a city deemed “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones” in 2009 by The Houston Chronicle—as well as to materialize the colorful sense of humor of Latin America. Even further, 10% of all sales of the premium cotton tees will be donated to Project Paz, a non-profit organization committed to changing the state of the city. Who said fashion doesn’t save lives?

 

 

À-la-Mexique Tees are $50 each and available for purchase now at Spenglish.net.

Images courtesy of À-la-Mexique.

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First Look: YSL Biopic Trailer

Don’t get me wrong. If I was spiritual, I would totally subscribe to the scripture of Hedi Slimane, the current Creative Director of Saint Laurent Paris. Sometimes I think (and possibly worry) that his time at Dior Homme in the early millennium were the happiest seven years in my life—as Meryl Streep in The Hours so aptly put it, “It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.” And like, he’s doing some pretty great things at Saint Laurent right now too, right? This morning, though, after watching the new trailer for Jalil Lespert’s film on the parisian house’s founder—one of two different films on Yves Saint Laurent releasing next year—I’m admittedly torn. Almost like a child forced to choose between two parents he clearly loves, I do not know which mastermind’s camp to align myself with more. With the cinematic drama of Lespert’s revisualization of 1960’s Paris, the nostalgic resurgence of classically androgynous YSL, and the miraculously accurate and Laurent co-founder and former life partner Pierre Bergé-approved portrayal of the designer by french actor Pierre Niney, it will be interesting to compare tradition with Slimane’s grungy, modern take next season. I guess we’ll have to wait until next year—or at least next Fashion Week—to see.

The movie Yves Saint Laurent releases in France in early 2014 and then in the US later that year.

Images courtesy of SND.

 

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Saint Laurent Opens First Men’s Store in Punk Rock Haven, San Francisco

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San Francisco, with its blood-surging punk rock scene, late-night glitter-filled drag queen circuit, and thrift stores aplenty, is not the first place that comes to mind when we think of luxury fashion. But perhaps in the context of Saint Laurent Paris’s two-year brand revamp, through the outspokenly-grunge brushstrokes of Creative Director Hedi Slimane, it is actually the perfect setting for the brand’s newest outpost.

Already home to Christopher Owens and the birthplace of Courtney Love (both, stars of Slimane’s Saint Laurent Music Project), the City by the Bay welcomed the opening of its first Saint Laurent store this past weekend. Even better, this present came just for the boys.

Offering men’s ready-to-wear and a full range of men’s accessories (like our favorites Classic Wyatt Harness Boot In Black Leather, and Classic Hunter Backpack in Navy Blue), the newly opened boutique is the best place to go on the West Coast to get the “tough” look, without having to actually get messy.

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First Arrivals: Saint Laurent First Collection now at MR PORTER

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Say…you woke up this morning with the unnerving itch to purchase something shiny, slim cut and brand new. (also, polka dots, to go back to bed, drink coffee and not go to work?) Oh, wait…that’s every morning, isn’t it? Well, today…that might be a little different. That whole “Saint Laurent” thing, which made its first appearance during the Spring 2013 shows is happening…for purchase… as of today over at MR PORTER! Under the creative direction of Hedi Slimane there’s some sharp tailoring, polka dots and few basic-y  things (like a black sweater with just a zipper around the neck) to keep the label’s refined-minded rockin’ & rollin’ man feeling happy. Also of note? The website’s picked up Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester. Here’s to a designer Tuesday!

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